| Sumario: | Electronic communication has challenged perception, social behavior, and the nexus of subject and environment no less than the invention of central perspective's mathematical space. In the late 1960s Margaret Mead focused on a type of communication she called "the small conference" in a book of the same title,[1] clearly reminiscent of the concept of "small wars", developed by Charles Edward Callwell in the 1890s as a form of colonial warfare.[2] Mead was especially qualified to experiment with the format of small conferences since she had, from 1946 to 1953, participated in the international and interdisciplinary Macy Conferences, a project financed to explore post-war social systems based on computer-controlled administration und politics. Managing one's own participation, one's image or voice in the conferencing system, requires some training as well as the insight that many features are tacitly implemented into the steering system's algorithms.
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