{"id":1160,"date":"2006-03-22T15:53:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T19:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2006-03-22T15:53:40","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T19:53:40","slug":"eugene-roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Roman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Eugene Roman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bce.ca\/en\/aboutbce\/executiveteams\/bellcanada\/roman\/\">Eugene Roman<\/a>, the Group President of Bell Canada Systems &amp; Technology, came to talk to a Communication Studies class about <a title=\"McMaster Daily News\" href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.mcmaster.ca\/story.cfm?id=3907\">The Digitization of Everything: The MODern Era<\/a>. In his talk and conversations after he asked us to look up and think about <a title=\"History of 'Holons'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mech.kuleuven.be\/goa\/hms-int\/history.html\">Holons<\/a>. He asked us to think in the inverse &#8211; ie. not to ask how to make a better Google, but what an anti-Google would be like. He also talked about viral thinking and how to &#8220;infect&#8221; others. When we got talking about wireless (and he sees it all going wireless) he made the interesting observation that a barcode is a form of wireless communication, even if the distance is not great. What will we be able to do with barcodes if taking a picture of a barcode with a wireless camera-phone can trigger things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Roman, the Group President of Bell Canada Systems &amp; Technology, came to talk to a Communication Studies class about The Digitization of Everything: The MODern Era. In his talk and conversations after he asked us to look up and think about Holons. He asked us to think in the inverse &#8211; ie. not to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eugene Roman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}