Ewriting Prospectives: Hybridity as a Tool for Human Thought

ABSTRACT: E-writing is a field of inquiry generating theories, practices, and applications that continuously redefine our perspective on writing. Traditionally considered as final objects, texts can now be seen as sources for re-information and matrixes for interrelation and reconstruction. E-writing tools challenge deep-rooted cultural habits forming the foundation of our language and thought processes. E-writing reconceives individual authorship into a multi-dividual, socio-machinic, planetwide process. Writing, and by extension, thinking, science, design, expression, artmaking, architecture, economics, and philosophy will be understood as a dialogical process between human actors and intelligent computer applications allied to giant data banks. Collaborative web-based writing and machine-generated authorship will be investigated as human-developmental tools. Nevertheless, present instituted legal theories and systems act as insurmountable obstacles, restraining collaborative and interactional authorship models and practices and advances in human creativity, authorship, and invention. Thus, current intellectual property values and legal theories will readapt to new forms of authorship involving human-machine planetary integration. Each new writing, invention, design, or proposition is now reconceived through its web presence as a potential element in extensive textual constructions. Information, considered as re-information, as data-in-flux, will be increasingly analyzed within parameters such as availability, interconnectivity, formatability, translatability, and disseminability. Texts will have to be fully interconnectable and legally free to interact so that new statements and propositions can be automatically constructed. Then, the full potential of presently available or yet-to-be-created communication technologies will be achieved.

KEYWORDS: E-writing; Web-based Writing, Computer-generated Writing, Human-machine Interactions, E-authors' Rights, Intellectual Property, Re-information, Intelligent Systems