Marshall McLuhan
The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 2 views
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What is an abstract? An abstract is a stand-alone statement that briefly conveys the essential information of a paper, article, document or book; presents the objective, methods, results, and conclusions of a research project; has a brief, non-repetitive style.
What's the difference between a 'Trojan Horse' a 'Worm' and a 'Virus'? - 1 views
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is a program - really, that's all any of this is. A virus is just a computer program. It's written by some individual or individuals, presumably with the intent of spreading and causing grief. makes the infected computer "sick" - in the computer sense, "sick" can mean poor performance, crashes, lost files and data, or more. replicates itself - just like you can copy a file from one disk to another, and now have copies on both disks, a computer virus is in part defined by its ability to make copies of itself. Typically the copies aren't on the infected computer, but rather on other computers, which leads us to the last characteristic... infects other computers - exactly how depends on the virus, of course, but another key defining point for a computer virus is that it can spread, on its own.
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a) a Worm does cause damage to the infected system, and b) worms and viruses differ from how they are transmitted: a worm is a stand-alone program, while a virus propagates by attaching itself to another program.
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program that claims to be one thing, but is, in fact, another.
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Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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i can't believe there are that many photos of the golden gate bridge, its a waste of film/memory. take 200,000 photos of me from any position, now theres something worth looking at. Seriously though, i think there is also software that can analyze all those photos and use them to make an accurate 3D generated model...now that to me is cool.
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We are people of the screen now. Last year, digital-display manufacturers cranked out four billion new screens, and they expect to produce billions more in the coming years. That’s one new screen each year for every human on earth.
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In 2007, 600 feature films were released in the United States, or about 1,200 hours of moving images
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The Technium - 0 views
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The leading edge of technology (lightweight, disembodied, highly leveraged stuff — solar panels, gene therapies, and quantum computers) races forward, but only because its subsumed foundations also march forward.
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This is an excellent look at the building of technology. Thousands of years ago agriculture was the greatest leap forward in technology. To this day the basis of current technology still rests on agriculture. Each technological advance adds another stair to a never-ending staircase of knowledge and information. Without the initial discovery of something such as agriculture there would have been no way to sustain a society that would go on to make further technological advances.
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Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information. Since extropy is defined as negative entropy — the reversal of disorder — it is, by definition, an increase in order.
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I believe this is one of the most important statements in the article. Without being given Kelly's initial desriptions of extropy and entropy the rest of the article would be quite confusing. It is indteresting to ponder the reversal of disorder because one would automatically assume that the answer is order. However, as knowledge continues to expand the definition may change. I agree with Kelly's analysis that information is a fluid process.
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The most mechanical superstructures we've ever built - say skyscrapers, or the Space Shuttle, or the Hadron Supercollider — are giant physical manifestations of incredibly structured information.
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This sentence oddly reminds me of Semantic Web. When searching with Semantic Web for Space Shuttle you would not only receive pictures of a Space Shuttle, but also video and text about it. A parallel can be drawn because Space Shuttle is an embodiment of multiple sources and types of information just as the Space Shuttle is the embodiment of all types of mathematics and sciences. Semantic Web, and ultimately these embodiments, are actually just large amounts of information put into one thing.
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Becoming Screen Literate from the New York Times - 0 views
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Gutenberg’s invention of metallic movable type elevated writing into a central position in the culture. By the means of cheap and perfect copies, text became the engine of change and the foundation of stability. From printing came journalism, science and the mathematics of libraries and law. The distribution-and-display device that we call printing instilled in society a reverence for precision (of black ink on white paper), an appreciation for linear logic (in a sentence), a passion for objectivity (of printed fact) and an allegiance to authority (via authors), whose truth was as fixed and final as a book. In the West, we became people of the book. Now invention is again
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Gutenberg's invention helped createt he world we live in today. Due to his invention, we saved resources of ink but destroyed trees for paper. On the other hand, we do have books, testaments, verification due Gutenburg's invention. The people are able to see the bigger picture when written on paper.
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In fact, the habits of the mashup are borrowed from textual literacy. You cut and paste words on a page. You quote verbatim from an expert. You paraphrase a lovely expression. You add a layer of detail found elsewhere. You borrow the structure from one work to use as your own. You move frames around as if they were phrases.
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It is a formidable task, but in the past decade computers have gotten much better at recognizing objects in a picture than most people realize. Researchers have started training computers to recognize a human face. Specialized software can rapidly inspect a photograph’s pixels searching for the signature of a face: circular eyeballs within a larger oval, shadows that verify it is spherical. Once an algorithm has identified a face, the computer could do many things with this knowledge: search for the same face elsewhere, find similar-looking faces or substitute a happier version.
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The Technium: Major Transitions in Technology - 0 views
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Primate communication --) Language Oral lore --) Writing/math notation Scripts --) Printing Scholarly knowledge --) Science Social production --) Industrial production Material culture --) Universal communication
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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.
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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.
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The Technium: What Technology Wants - 0 views
Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
The Technium: Better Than Free - 0 views
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