There’s a special culture out there that is really driving communications technology. If we understand its workings and watch its creations, we can discover tomorrow’s innovations and phenomenons before they happen. Observe.
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Discussion: The Future is 1337
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Reading reflections: The ethics of the future
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Monty Python cartoon: Television is Bad for Your Eyes
Why is technology always viewed so negatively? And why is the future always bleak? Why does it feel like the future-thinking theorists and prognosticators of the late 20th century as well as the present day always seem to be pointing out how present technoproblems automatically mean future pains?
Reading Reflections: The telephone, recorded sound, semiconductors, and the interesting paths of invention and diffusion – plus predicting the future in 1945!
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Yes, that’s a long title, but I have so much to talk about! This week’s readings for my Evolutions and Trends in Digital Media course covered myriad subjects, but I have been able to draw out some common ideas and will assiduously attempt to tie them all together here. We students were asked to take a look at some more of Brian Winston’s book, Media, Technology, and Society, on the subject of the telephone and recorded sound, as well as Clay Christensen’s Seeing What’s Next, regarding the semiconductor, and lastly, Vannevar Bush’s prophetic 1945 treatise “As We May Think“, which rightly predicted the era of the computer. I will somehow connect these works together and bring them all back to the subject of communication in general. Wish me luck!
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