There were more than 10 billion views of video on YouTube in September.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Stefan Oliver
Kevin Kelly - 0 views
Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
-
-
I think this is incredably important. With more advances in video and the further video is spread written liturature is losing its place in the world. Everything will soon be placed in online databases and there wont be a need to libraries or books. IT isnt because we are leazy, it is because there is more and more information everyday and we simply wont be able to physicaly store it all.
-
-
-
- ...4 more annotations...
The Technium: Major Transitions in Technology - 0 views
-
Primate communication --) Language Oral lore --) Writing/math notation Scripts --) Printing Scholarly knowledge --) Science Social production --) Industrial production Material culture --) Universal communication
-
The scientific method followed printing as a more refined way to deal with the exploding amount of information humans were generating. Via scholarly correspondence and later journals, science offered a method of extracting reliable information, testing it, and then linking it to a growing body of other tested, interlinked facts.
-
Finally, the last major transition in the organization of knowledge is happening right now. We are in the midst of a movement where we embed information into all matter around us. We inject order into everything we manufacture by designing it, but now we are also adding small microscopic chips that can perform small amounts of computation and communication. Even the smallest disposable item will share a small thin sliver of our collective mind. This all-pervasive flow of information, expanded to include manufactured objects as well as humans, and distributed around the globe in one large web, is the greatest (but not final) ordering of information. And it marks the most recent major stage of technology.
- ...2 more annotations...
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page