Subjective, Objective and Internet Technology

I've reprinted the section of the table that deals with Internet technology from the post Mental Functions Table.  Here you'll see how the basic structure of the Internet can be seen to metaphorically mirror Jung's model of human psychology, particularly in his first and most basic concept of Introversion (Subjective) and Extraversion (Objective).  Some of the technologies past and present can easily be mapped (I'd welcome suggestions of others).

Extraverted (E)	Introverted (I)
forward	backward
active	reflective
superficial	deep
expend energy	conserve energy
external	internal
talk to think	think to talk
public	private
speaking	writing
same	different

Server (e)	Client (i)
synchronous	asynchronous
client/server	peer-to-peer
server computing	grid computing
rss	http
ftp	bittorrent
IRC	IM
IM (Y!, AIM, XMPP)	Solipsis
push	pull

A robust social networking system would incorporate both side of the I/E dichotomy, and offer granularity in between.  There are purposes for both types of networking, as I'll explain over time.

It seems the original model of the Internet has been lost with the commercialization of it, and developing robust personal servers has fallen by the wayside.  It's time to return to the basics:  develop simple and secure server technology, develop sophisticated interfaces for the common user, distribute the software to each data server instead of relying on the cloud.

The cloud is a bug, not a feature.  Remember that.  It's important.

Mental Functions Table

Mental Functions Table

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Below are the eight mental functions in one table, comparing their Extraverted and Introverted versions in two columns.
The top two sets are those of Perception (S and N), and the bottom two sets are those of Judgment (T and F). And there's a bonus set at the bottom.

Extraverted (E)	Introverted (I)
forward	backward
active	reflective
superficial	deep
expend energy	conserve energy
external	internal
talk to think	think to talk
public	private
speaking	writing
same	different
Perception (Pe)	Perception (Pi)
State of being	Recalled/imagined state of being
Sensing (Se)	Sensing (Si)
present, and next and next	present to past
simultaneous	sequential
actual, factual, present and real	past, history, 'always been' and impression
realistic	caricature
tactile and sensory	visceral
terrain	map
Intuition (Ne)	Intuition (Ni)
present to future	eternity, past and future, unpresent
patterns between	metaphors within
possibilities	could have beens, once upon a time
Judgment (Je)	Judgment (Ji)
causal	analytical
compromised	fundamental
rule	principle
active	reactive
rule	exception
	system
group	sort/rank
executive	legislative
causation	correlation
Thinking (Te)	Thinking (Ti)
if...then	...else ...else
compromised	fundamental
standard	unique
notation	denotation
Feeling (Fe)	Feeling (Fi)
custom/tradition	free will
community	individual
social mores	social liberties
harmony	solo
group	self
stereotype	archetype
sympathetic	empathetic
clarificiation	connotation
Server (e)	Client (i)
synchronous	asynchronous
client/server	peer-to-peer
server computing	grid computing
rss	http
ftp	bittorrent/bittyrant
IRC	IM
AIM/Yahoo/etc IM	Solipsis
push	pull

If you'll note the color choices for the function headers, they're from the traditional colors first assigned by Jung. There's strong evidence that Jung was slightly synesthetic (as are many of his particular Type), so he labeled Sensing as green, iNtuition as yellow, Thinking as blue and Feeling as red. I assigned Purple to generalized Judgment (red/blue) and a yellow/green color for generalized Perception. I'm going to change the shades slightly, making the E versions slightly darker and the I versions slightly lighter, giving E 75% grey and introverted only 25% grey. Since orange was the only color not used in his system, I've reserved it for computers and the Internet.