User:Lion Kimbro
The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.
Biographical Information:
- Homepage: http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/
- Blog: http://lion.taoriver.net/
- Life Map: http://lion.taoriver.net//?p=39
I am active in the wiki community outside of the high-profile wiki (Wikipedia, Citizendium, Wikia.) I invented the concept of the WikiNode.
Giles Turnbull wrote about a book I wrote a long time ago, and I ended up with a few moments of fame in Britain.
I lead a project called Local Names, the purpose of which is to extend Wiki-like linking beyond the boundary of wiki.
Educational Information:
I went to Harvey Mudd College for 2 years, (studying Computer Science,) and then went to work in the technical industry.
I believe that education is a lifelong process, and that it doesn't just happen in schools.
Some of the questions I have asked (& studied) since college include:
- How can people make revolutionary use of Internet technologies to live free and fulfilling lives, to make their dreams come true?
- What is the future of society and technology?
- What do we really know? How do we know it?
- How do reason and dialog work? Given how little role a logic plays (and how little a role it can play,) the reality of bounded rationality, what is the boundary of "reason?" What types of reason are there?
- How can we make collaboration by image a fundamental part of the online experience? (Think: Drawings, Visual Language, Robert Horn & Scott McCloud.)
- How can we make a spiritual naturalistic practice? How does meaning touch fact, and vice versa?
I have practical expertise in wiki and programming (started at age 7.)