<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I always hope to make longer posts and never do, so let's put an end to that idea quick.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Indeed, this is something we've been covering with AUDC in our upcoming book and, to some extent in the wiki section of our site, audc.org/projects.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The last chapter of Elaine Scarry's the Body in Pain is a great source on contemporary animism (you stubbed your toe on the garbage can so you threw it across the room. REVENGE! etc.).</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:03 PM, <A href="mailto:idc-request@bbs.thing.net">idc-request@bbs.thing.net</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Many human cultures have traditions of animism and the imanenence of<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">space.I suspect that this cultural history is also part of the drive<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">make an Internet of Things.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>