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Re: [ICANN-EU] Re: [icann-candidates] Re: Article 31



Dear all,

what you mean, is it better to make some thinks better in the future, or
is it enough to find new names, to redefine our future?

Best regards
Sabine

Berend Schuitema schrieb:
> 
> Constantine,
> 
> >
> > P.S. by the way, did you know that cyber comes from the Greek
> > cybernitis, that means governor? I don't like the word cyberspace
> > I am open to suggestions! Let's redefine our future!
> >
> 
> You're right, surprised myself as my perception was that the word had to do
> with "brain"! Oxford dictionary gives the meaning of "cybernetics" as "the
> science of communication and automatic control systems both machines and
> living things".
> 
> Suggestion ? How about "ideosphere"?
> 
> Or Teilhard de Chardin's "noosphere"?
> 
> Seems to me that before we get into names calling activities, what ICANN is
> all about, we start off by getting this one right!!!
> 
> Berend
> 

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