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  • The technium can be understood as a way of structuring information beyond biology.
  • language, and its kin writing, which introduced a parallel set of symbol strings to those found in DNA
  • the book index, punctuation, cross-references, and alphabetic order permitted incredibly complex structures within words
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  • printing broadcast them
  • Calendars and other scripts captured abstractions such as time, or music
  • scientific method in the 17th century was a series of deepening organizational techniques
  • Data was first measured, then recorded, analyzed, forecasted and disseminated
  • The wide but systematic exchange of information via wires, radio waves and society meetings upped the complexity of information flowing through the technium
  • Innovations in communications (phonograph, telegraph, television) sped up the rate of coordination, and also added new levels of systemization
  • paper was a more permanent memory device than the brain; photographic film even better. Cheap digital chips lowered the barrier for storing ephemeral information, further intensifying the density of informatio
  • Highly designed artifacts and materials are atoms stuffed with layers of complex information. 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
  • the two greatest inventions in the last 25 years, the link and the tag, have woven new levels of complexity into the web of information
  • The technium of today reflects 8,000 years of almost daily incremental increases in its embedded knowledge.
  • Every one of the 30 million or so unique species of life on the planet today is an unbroken informational thread that traces back to the very first cell.
  • Geneticist Motoo Kimura estimates that the total genetic information accumulated since the Cambrian explosion 500 million years ago is 10 megabytes per genetic lineage.
  • One study estimated the earth harbored 10^30 single-cell microbes. A typical microbe, like a yeast, produces one one-bit mutation per generation, which means one bit of unique information for every organism alive. Simply counting the microbes alone (about 50% of the biomass), the biosphere contains 10^30 bits, or 10^29 bytes, or 10,000 yottabyes of genetic information.
  • Measured by the amount of digital storage in use, the technium today contains 487 exabytes (10^20) of information, many orders smaller than nature's total, but growing. Technology expands data by 66% per year, overwhelming the growth rates of any natural source.
  • the laws of physics don't (as far as we know) improve with time, but extropic systems like life, mind and the technium do. Over billions of years they gain order, complexity, and their own self-organized autonomy — all things not present in the universe before. As Paul Davies points out, "life as we observe it today is 1 percent physics and 99 percent history."
  • Our present economic migration from a material-based industry to a knowledge economy of intangible goods (such as software, design, and media products) is just the latest in a steady move towards the immaterial.
  • Forty percent of US exports today are services (intangibles) rather than manufactured goods (atoms). Disembodiment of value (more value, less mass) is a steady trend in the technium
  • Dematerialization is not the only way in which extropy advances. The technium's ability to compress information into highly refined structures is also a triumph of the immaterial.
  • Every scientific theory is in the end a compression of information. In this way, our libraries stacked with peer-reviewed, cross-indexed, annotated, equation-riddled journal articles are great mines of concentrated information.
  • the genome of a single living organism contains more information than required by all the laws of physics.
  • If you were to take all the known laws of physics, formulas such as f=ma, E=mc^2, S= K log W, and more complicated ones that describe how liquids flow, or objects spin, or electrons jump, and write them all down in one file, they would fit onto a single gigabyte CD disk.
  • Even if we currently know only 0.1% of the actual number of laws guiding universal processes, many of which we are undoubtedly still unaware of, and the ultimate file of physical laws was 1,000 times
  • Once scientists built large scopes to examine matter below the level of fleeting quarks and muons, they saw the world was incorporeal. They discovered that matter is, at the bottom, empty space and waves of quantum uncertainties.
  • All creation is assembled from irreducible bits. The bits are like the "atoms" of classical Greece: the tiniest constituent of existence. But these new digital atoms are the basis not only of matter, as the Greeks thought, but of energy, motion, mind, and life.
  • To date, computer scientists have been able to encapsulate every logical argument, scientific equation, and literary work that we know about into the basic notation of computation.
  • The second supposition is that all things can compute. Surprisingly almost any kind of material can serve as the matrix for a computer. Human brains, which are mostly water, compute fairly well.
  • The third postulate is: All computation is one.
  • The physics of person munching on a banana is computationally equivalent to the best possible virtual simulation of the same act. Both phenomenon require the same degree of universal computation, one in particles, and one in electrons.
  • The Turing-Church conjecture states that any computation executed by one computer with access to an infinite amount of storage, can be done by any other computing machine with infinite storage, no matter what its configuration
  • The consequence of these three propositions — that computation is universal, ubiquitous, and equivalent — suggests that the logical processing of bits is the most potent form of self-organization at work in the universe.
  • If everything can compute, and all computation is equivalent, then there is only one universal computer. All the human-made computation, especially our puny little PCs, merely piggyback on cycles of the Great Computer, also known as the Universe.
  • doctrine of universal computation means all existing things — the made, the found and the born — are linked to one another because they share, as John Wheeler said, "at the bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source." This commonality, spoken of by mystics of many beliefs in different terms, also has a scientific name: information, computation, extropy.
  • Generally, a society does not abandon a new technology to return to an earlier version. When a current technology is suspended in the natural course of evolution it is usually displaced by a more complex variation, and the old version is swept aside as a viable minor alternative, or at least a curiosity, but rarely goes extinct.
    • Caitlin Eisele
      Caitlin Eisele on 23 Sep 09
       
      Currently technology is based off of old technology. As time goes by the technological product becomes better and better. Once a product becomes more enhanced and updated people don't go back to the outdated product. Instead they use the current prodect and wait for the next to come out.
    • Justine Inton
      Justine Inton on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology is never lost. It is only replaced or improved. After bouts of trial and error as well experimentation newer, better, and more efficient versions of a technology are created.
  • Rather than a series of linear displacements climbing a ladder of evolution, the technium progresses as a widening field of accumulation.
  • Existing technologies keep operating almost intact, but are subsumed under additional new, more complex layers.
  • As any modern farmer will tell you, the glories of virtual worlds and e-commerce depend upon a rather primitive cycle of poking seeds into dirt and harvesting the replicants
  • For all practical purposes the flexibility of a technological system is eliminated once its initial choices and defaults are fixed. As systems scale up they acquire inertia.
  • The more established a process is, the harder it is to change, the more it proceeds along its path. Big technology is hard to stop.
  • This grid, built 100 years ago, lighted your grandparent's home, and our parents', and now brightens mine, and will light the lights of our grandchildren and probably their grandkids.
  • This technological longevity is almost a kind of immortality that transcends our comparatively brief lives. The technium's scope exists outside of our oversight, especially outside of our personal oversight. Its omnipresence together with its relative immortality grants it a version of autonomy.
  • The second way that technology gains a measure of autonomy is through its self-creation of needs.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology is constantly growing an with its growth comes addition applications. Every great piece of technology comes along with different attachments to improve the technology. The article uses the example of the cell phone. Technology can always be improved on and this is a great example of that.
  • It is this stratified stability created by extropy, evolution, and self-organization which prevents the collapse of complexity. If complexity had to re-assemble itself at every instance, nothing really complex would be possible.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 23 Sep 09
       
      Because of extropy, evolution, and self-organization complexity is possible. Everything complex being organized decreases the complexity and simplifies it. The most complex ideas will never be solved without simplifing it down and making it easier to understand.
  • The technium today is entirely populated with combinations of primitive technologies that have been ratcheted up into more complex devices.
  • Progress, even moral progress, is ultimately a human invention. It is a product of our wills and minds, and thus a technology.
  • Even counting vast tracks of agriculture, the technium entails fewer than one percent of the atoms on the Earth's land surface. Yet the impact which this minute fraction of technological mass and energy has on the planet is in far disproportion to its size. Measured by impact per gram or calorie, there is nothing comparable to things we invent. Technology is the most powerful force in the world.
  • But when we trace back the origins for each agent in a field of causes, we find that each strand leads to a newly introduced technology, a new idea.  That means that new technologies today will cast a long shadow into the future and shape the lives of our descendents.
  • "New technologies are never created from nothing." Arthur observed. "They are constructed—put together—from components that previously exist; and in turn these new technologies offer themselves as possible components—building blocks—for the construction of further new technologies."
  • (Not that material processing has let up, just that intangible processing is now more valuable.) In six years the average weight per dollar of US exports (the most valuable things the US produces) dropped by half.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 23 Sep 09
       
      now that we are in an age where big material posessions are bacoming obsolete. It is more accurate to say like in this article that intangible processing is more of a need. much like the internet is becoming a nacessity in life it is intangible, just like some of the most powerful thngs in the world like money. While money is a physical thing the value of them is determined by uncontrolable factors to the people. The most powerful things in the world today are the ones that cant be touched.
  • Most people can appreciate how the essence of living things might be information and order. Information is vague enough to be similar to the idea of a "spirit." But if my hypothesis is true — that life is an extension of a 14 billion-year old inanimate autonomous order, one that now continues into the machines of technology — then this same spirit of information must reside at the core of the non-living world as well. Although it may not dominate matter's behavior, information must rest in the essence of matter. That's a lot less intuitive. When we bang a knee against a table leg, it sure doesn't feel like we knocked into information. But that's the idea many physicists are formulating.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 23 Sep 09
       
      when the matters life are confronted by the laws of order there are questions that always arise. Like the article says "information is vague enough to be similar to the idea of spirit," it means that living can be broken down into information. if we can be broken down into information than cant the things we create be spirit in the form of information aswell? However, just becasue this matter doesnt willingly tell us information without the process of science, does that make it any less important?
  • One computer can do anything another can do. This is why your Mac can, with proper software, pretend to be a PC, or, with sufficient memory, a slow supercomputer. A Dell laptop could, if anyone wanted it to, emulate an iPhone.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      any machine that is equal or better than another can take on the lesser ones qualities. technology is purposly doing this so that the competition cant beat them out. If mac makes a program for their computers than del would only come out with a better, i response mac would come out with something btter than the del. This process would go on forever if it wasnt for the computation. the ability to take on any others abilities if you have the storage.
  • In that curious way of life, growth triggers more growth. The web of technologies is ever expanding because a particular technology will self-generate new needs, new demands, and new appetites.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      Technology well never stay the same for long. Once you buy that new computer there is already something better being made, the same goes for existing ones that are popular or havnt been replaced yet. once you get that new cell phone there will be modifications for it in now time to make it better and resemble the machines that you use the most, your computer.
  • But where did this remarkable harvest of lawful order come from if it was not somehow "built into" that tiny file of physical laws? I claim that the trajectory of the technium was embedded into the fabric of matter and energy. If that is true, then one literal interpretation of that claim is that the 10^29 bytes of information now in the extropic realm were somehow dissolved into the one gigabyte of information of the physical laws, and unpacked over time. By the same logic, the dense leafy information displayed by a huge oak tree was previously dissolved into the microscopic informational packet of a tiny acorn, and unpacked over 80 years.
    • Linda Cranmer
      Linda Cranmer on 27 Sep 09
       
      I like this analogy of the acorn containing the root information that is needed in order to develop into the great oak tree as it grows and matures into what it is meant to become. Just like our iinitial cells at conception contain the dna that determines what we will become (adult woman/man and contains our genetic code), the laws of physics contain the intial information that made the universe be created as it is. However, just as our dna may predispose us to have particular personality traits, we are influenced by things around us as to how those traits will evolve and conditions can influence how the oak tree grow. I believe the technium will be influenced not just by those intial laws of physics, but by the way our society evolves through our interactions as well.
  • For instance in the age of automation, older hand tools are perfect for working off the grid, or in tight spots, or in countries with little cash. In an urban world, swords are hammered out by blacksmiths for ritual purposes. Quilts are sewn by hand for recreation and community. Fish are caught by hook for sport. Leather is used for the best shoes because the improvements on leather aren't really better. Commonly, the transition to the new appears faster than it is, as the old lingers invisibly behind the glittering flash of the new. For instance, despite the dominance of automobiles on modern culture today, more bicycles are sold each year than cars.
    • Linda Cranmer
      Linda Cranmer on 27 Sep 09
       
      Even when techology "improves" ways to do things, the old ways do not immediately disappear. The new ways may be faster and even be "improved," but there can still be uses/markets for the old ways of doing and/or making things. Sometimes people value and create a market for things made or done by "hand" or the "old fashioned" way (e.g. hand made jewelry/quilts, etc.); there is something to be said for the nostalgia factor and the feeling of accomplishment by creating someting by hand yourself.
  • Now we have the net. While some alarmists claim that Google is making us stupid, in fact Google is making us smarter by again retraining our brains. In a  2009 study Gary Small used MRI scans to demonstrate that sustained internet searching among older adults bestowed their brains with a two-fold increase in activation in several major brain regions compared to non-internet users. Experience web surfers had a significant increase in activity  in controlling decision making, complex reasoning, and vision, including the frontal pole, anterior temporal region, and the hippocampus regions of the brain.
    • Linda Cranmer
      Linda Cranmer on 27 Sep 09
       
      I found this information to be interesting. I, too, thought that by just "googling" for information, we could be creating a generation of people who would not know how to find the information on their own without the internet. However, there really will not be a need to find the information the "old fashioned" way; the way to research information will continually evolve, never requiring to go back to the old ways, and Googling actually had a positive impact on the brain as well.
  • But not all changes induced by technology are magically positive. Industrial scale slavery, like that imposed upon Africa, was enabled by sailing ships which transported captives across oceans, and encouraged by the mechanical cotton gin which could cheaply process the fibers the slaves planted and harvested. Without technology, slavery at this massive scale would have been unknown. Thousands of  synthetic persistent toxins have caused mass disruptions of natural cycles in both humans and other species, a huge unwanted downside from small inventions. War is a particularly serious amplifier of the great negative powers brought by technology. Horrific weapons of destruction, capable of inflicting entirely new atrocities upon society, spring directly from the most powerful force in the world.  On the other hand, the remedies and offsets to the negative consequences also stem from this most powerful force. Local ethnic slavery was practiced by most earlier civilizations, and probably in prehistoric times as well, and still continues in sporadic remote areas; it's overall diminishment globally is due to the technological tools of communication, law, and education. Technologies of detection, and substitution, can remove the routine use of synthetic toxins. The technologies of monitoring, law, treaties, policing, courts, citizen media and economic globalism can temper, dampen, and in the long run diminish the vicious cycles of war.
    • Linda Cranmer
      Linda Cranmer on 27 Sep 09
       
      This is an interesting comparision of both the positive and negative impacts technology has had on our society. Technology can be used for the good of all, but can just as well be used to control and/or harm people. We as a society must be ever vigilant in our ethical and moral obligations in our use of technology .
Matthew Kuschan

Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      No longer do people focus on word of mouth but instead it seems as if people need to have something verified by technology. Instead of speaking to others, people find ways to communicate through technology and because of this people are more content keeping to themselves. It has become easier to find friends, date, and find ways to entertain yourself just through the use of technology. What more could people want? People are now able to rely solely on technology and no longer have to experience physical interaction in life.
  • We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      What do people think of the statement here about being pulled "away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority." Does this have anything to do with the idea of peer review??
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      This idea was discussed in class. Soon enough a screen will not be something that we look at but it will be something we live in. People are now visualizing everything more than ever before. Screens can provide people with pictures, text, and visual clips in order to get an idea or point across. We are becoming more and more a part of screens and eventually it seems as if we will just live within them rather than use them as a major part of our lives.
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  • We tend to think the tiger represents the animal kingdom, but in truth, a grasshopper is a truer statistical example of an animal. The handcrafted Hollywood film won’t go away, but if we want to see the future of motion pictures, we need to study the swarming food chain below — YouTube, indie films, TV serials and insect-scale lip-sync mashups — and not just the tiny apex of tigers.
  • The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      The use or oral communication is becoming outdated. Technology has provided so many new features to help people stay in contact with eachother. Using social networks allows people from all over the world to communicate and make new friends with the click of a button. For example, I'm able to communicate with my friend from Italy via facebook. Why would someone continue to use the way of oral communication when technology has made communicatiing so much easier?
  • A new distribution-and-display technology is nudging the book aside and catapulting images, and especially moving images, to the center of the culture. We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      People need to realize that as technology increases in the world the objects required to do the jobs as before are getting smaller. Now, no longer are video cameras required because it is getting to the point that phones are producing perfect videos recorded when needed. For a phone to do a job that a video camera could once do is amazing. Not only is it able to call, text, get email, take pictures, go on the internet, but also now it can take flawless videos. As time goes on, the technological objects that exist now will continue to decrease in size as people continue innovating the world that we live in today.
  • Even the greatest writers do their magic primarily by rearranging formerly used, commonly shared ones. What we do now with words, we’ll soon do with images.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Being physically able to see sometthing is more appealing to people, than reading a book. We are more dependent on seeing things, such as texting someone, or watching a movie over reading a book. We are able to relate more to real life when we can see it, seeing is believing. More and more screens are popping up everywhere to provide us with entertainment, or as a way to write a document for school. Soon everything will be made out of screens.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      Danielle? How is texting seeing something anymore than writing something on a piece of paper? Did I miss your point?
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      College students seem to take for granted how easy it may be to find a definition or a link to a certain problem that is needed for homework. It comes easy to use to copy and paste words and sometimes it may be easy to do the same with pictures. However, it seems that as more and more generations continue growing up with technology the more they will be able to do without a problem. Already college students may look at the older generations that did not grow up with technology and question how they did it. As time goes on, younger generations will question us as how did we function without all these great technological innovations in our time. Just as we take copy and paste for granted, they will take certain aspects for granted as well.
  • We tend to think the tiger represents the animal kingdom, but in truth, a grasshopper is a truer statistical example of an animal. The handcrafted Hollywood film won’t go away, but if we want to see the future of motion pictures, we need to study the swarming food chain below — YouTube, indie films, TV serials and insect-scale lip-sync mashups — and not just the tiny apex of tigers. The bottom is where the action is, and where screen literacy originates.
    • Caitlin Eisele
      Caitlin Eisele on 23 Sep 09
       
      Motion pictures wont always be shown the way they are today. Previous generations would watch movies in their car while parked in a large open field with other viewer goers. Today we sit in a big indoor theater in which we can also view them in 3-D. If you wonder how future generations will watch movies you need to look at our current technology such as Youtube and our TV series.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Yes screen play has become very popular among our entertainment today. But we can not forget the ideas the led us to this point in age. We must remember that there were stepping stones to every evolving creation. Hollywood is still a huge force in the making of movies, but other projects are beginning to spring up. These new programs maybe become more popular in a few years, but they will never erase what has been laid in stone before it.
  • Digital technology gives the professional a new language as well. An image stored on a memory disc instead of celluloid film has a plasticity that allows it to be manipulated as if the picture were words rather than a photo
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      This definitely shows how everyone in the world has advanced since the time when films were put on celluloid. Also, you can fit more of a movie onto a disc and are also able to rearrange the way it is to make it simpler to use and also to make sure that it flows. Putting info on a disc also means that it is now in a digital form, and that you can save the finished product onto the internet so you will always have it no matter what happens. Also by putting it on a disc, you are able to add other features like special effects, and also add the special features on DVD's.
  • Digital technology gives the professional a new language as well. An image stored on a memory disc instead of celluloid film has a plasticity that allows it to be manipulated as if the picture were words rather than a photo.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Digital technology makes moviemaking much easier than using filmstrips. An editor can simply copy and paste certain scenes where they want, rather than having to reshoot a scene. Another positive of digital technology is that it can save much more moviemaking progress than on a film strip. An editor can add special effects to their movie using this technology on computers, rather than just using what is shot in the film. Making movies can be as simple as writing an essay.
  • As moving images become easier to create, easier to store, easier to annotate and easier to combine into complex narratives, they also become easier to be remanipulated by the audience. This gives images a liquidity similar to words. Fluid images­ made up of bits flow rapidly onto new screens and can be put to almost any use. Flexible images migrate into new media and seep into the old. Like alphabetic bits, they can be squeezed into links or stretched to fit search engines, indexes and databases. They invite the same satisfying participation in both creation and consumption that the world of text doe
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Moving images has made life for people much easier. Instead of having to mail an important document or picture, it can be simply attached to an e-mail. Images as well as documents and important information can be put up on web sites as well. All of these images can be manipulated and changed to suite a person's wants or needs. For example, if you are using facebook, a person can tag themselves in a photo and then "photoshop" different designs and words onto the actual picture. Moving images have certainly changed the way the world shares information.
  • The recent live-action feature movie “Speed Racer,” while not a box-office hit, took this style of filmmaking even further. The spectacle of an alternative suburbia was created by borrowing from a database of existing visual items and assembling them into background, midground and foreground. Pink flowers came from one photo source, a bicycle from another archive, a generic house roof from yet another. Computers do the hard work of keeping these pieces, no matter how tiny and partial they are, in correct perspective and alignment, even as they move. The result is a film assembled from a million individual existing images.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      Being able to do this will make films and other movies a lot easier to make. The directors and film crews will not be needed as much since most of the work will now be done on a computer since now you are able to import and photoshop images. Also, graphic designers will become into demand more since the film crews will not be needed but they will have to draw the objects instead of filming them.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      Steven I think that you still need a director even in a digital movie. There has to be someone who has the overall vision of the movie.
  • t 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.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Computers have the ability to recognize human beings in a picture or a motion picture. This becomes very helpful for certain things such as traffic violations, robberies, computer hacking, etc. We can also use this technology to change the appearance of somebody, whether it be for illegal purposes or for just plain fun. If a computer can recognize a human face, this helps a great deal in law enforcement. This will make it much easier to identify a person, simply by looking at different characteristics of the suspects face.
  • 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.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      With this type of technology it can be used to find or track criminals. Also, they are working on cameras that work together and can track people throughout several cameras. Also, since the cameras are able to recognize facial features and determine the person and can let people know who is were. If a face is in a movie and they happen to have an unhappy face you are now able to subsitute it with a happier one or change it to suit the needs of the movie.
  • Academic research has produced a few interesting prototypes of video summaries but nothing that works for entire movies. Some popular Web sites with huge selections of movies (like porn sites) have devised a way for users to scan through the content of full movies quickly in a few seconds. When a user clicks the title frame of a movie, the window skips from one key frame to the next, making a rapid slide show, like a flip book of the movie. The abbreviated slide show visually summarizes a few-hour film in a few seconds. Expert software can be used to identify the key frames in a film in order to maximize the effectiveness of the summary.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Being allowed to scan through an entire movie in seconds makes watching short films as well as long films much easier. If I want to skip to a certain scene or just watch only certain parts of a film, it is as simple as jumping to that section of the movie. This also makes teaching much easier. Since classes do not go on forever and a teacher would like to show a clip from a movie for teaching purposes, they can do this in an easy manner.
  • way for users to scan through the content of full movies quickly in a few seconds. When a user clicks
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      This makes life very easy becasue if you do not want to watch the entire movie, and just a section of it you can just go to the scene selection page on a DVD and peruse the items or press the skip button. The other thing that comes in handy is that on YouTube you do not have to watch the entire video to get to the part that you want to watch but you can start it from a certain part and it downloads from that part. Also when watching a movie online, one can get a brief slide show of the movie to find out if you want to watch the movie.
  • In the West, we became people of the book.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 23 Sep 09
       
      Back in the day the book was everything. People had to go to the library or read news papers to find out any information. With the invention of the internet all that changed, and everyone looked to the computer. Life changed completely.
  • There were more than 10 billion views of video on YouTube in September. The most popular videos were watched as many times as any blockbuster movie.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 23 Sep 09
       
      Internet movies are getting so popular because they are being watched just as much as blockbuster movies. The fact that they are so easy to access makes them a great place to watch and gain viewers. Many people have gotten famous on youtube and other sites like it.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 23 Sep 09
       
      So tell me Matthew...would you stop going to the movie theater and watch your movies at home?
  • With the new screen fluency enabled by digital technology, however, a movie scene is something more flexible: it is like a writer’s paragraph, constantly being revised. Scenes are not captured (as in a photo) but built up incrementally. Layers of visual and audio refinement are added over a crude outline of the motion, the mix constantly in flux, always changeable.
  • To date most fan responses appear in text form, on sites like the Internet Movie Database. But increasingly fans respond to video with video.
  • With full-blown visuality, I should be able to annotate any object, frame or scene in a motion picture with any other object, frame or motion-picture clip.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 24 Sep 09
       
      Technology is at the point where if u can think of an idea there is a good chance you can do it. Especially when it comes to movies and film. All the action shots and crazy images are portrayed as if really happening when in reality it is just technology at it's best. Pixar is making movies now that are completely computerized. They literally have to power to do anything with these movies
  • On Google SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse, you can find insanely detailed three-dimensional virtual models of most major building structures of the world.
    • Matthew Kuschan
      Matthew Kuschan on 24 Sep 09
       
      Google is become the new leader in internet and cyber-space technology. With there new operating system coming out, Google has microsoft terrified. There seems to be no end to this Google power strip. I can not wait to see what they come up with next.
Joanna Zietara

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  • Once, long ago, culture revolved around the spoken word. The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      The advancement of technology has changed society. We have new and better forms of communication and do not use memorization or word of mouth to share information. It all began about 500 years ago with the type writer and first telephone. Now we have mini laptops, cell phones, and PDAS.
  • We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      -No longer read but watch -Do even need to read if you can just hear and understand -Screens everywhere planes, bathrooms, grocery stores -Invention over taking other forms of media
  • The overthrow of the book would have happened long ago but for the great user asymmetry inherent in all media. It is easier to read a book than to write one; easier to listen to a song than to compose one; easier to attend a play than to produce one. But movies in particular suffer from this user asymmetry. The intensely collaborative work needed to coddle chemically treated film and paste together its strips into movies meant that it was vastly easier to watch a movie than to make one. A Hollywood blockbuster can take a million person-hours to produce and only two hours to consume. But now, cheap and universal tools of creation (megapixel phone cameras, Photoshop, iMovie) are quickly reducing the effort needed to create moving images. To the utter bafflement of the experts who confidently claimed that viewers would never rise from their reclining passivity, tens of millions of people have in recent years spent uncountable hours making movies of their own design. Having a ready and reachable audience of potential millions helps, as does the choice of multiple modes in which to create. Because of new consumer gadgets, community training, peer encouragement and fiendishly clever software, the ease of making video now approaches the ease of writing.
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      User assymetry- for example, it takes hundreds of hours to produce a CD or a movie, but it only takes 3 minutes to listen to a song or 2 hours to watch a movie. Industries have come up with ways to reduce the time needed to produce something, by creating cheap and unviersal tools such as iMovie, Photoshop or phone cameras.
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  • A Hollywood blockbuster can take a million person-hours to produce and only two hours to consume. But now, cheap and universal tools of creation (megapixel phone cameras, Photoshop, iMovie) are quickly reducing the effort needed to create moving images.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      -Technology is now replacing technology -Cheaper films -How far will it go? -May no longer need human actors/actresses
  • The best editors can remix video as fast as you might type.
  • TimeTube is the visual equivalent of a citation index; instead of tracking which scholarly papers cite other papers, it tracks which videos cite other videos. All of these small innovations enable a literacy of the screen.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      -TimeTube citation website for videos -Video is becoming so popular need citations -User-created videos some of most popular -Any one can create movie/video and put on internet
  • In classic cinematography, a film is planned out in scenes; the scenes are filmed (usually more than once); and from a surfeit of these captured scenes, a movie is assembled. Sometimes a director must go back for “pickup” shots if the final story cannot be told with the available film. With the new screen fluency enabled by digital technology, however, a movie scene is something more flexible: it is like a writer’s paragraph, constantly being revised. Scenes are not captured (as in a photo) but built up incrementally. Layers of visual and audio refinement are added over a crude outline of the motion, the mix constantly in flux, always changeable.
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      The classic way of making films would take a very long time. The film production would include a planning out of each scene and going back and forth from scene to scene. With the new screen fluency caused by the digital technology, a movie scene is considered "moer flexible". Scenes are not captured, but built up incrementally. The scenes can constantly be revised.
  • In the great hive-mind of image creation, something similar is already happening with still photographs. Every minute, thousands of photographers are uploading their latest photos on the Web site Flickr. The more than three billion photos posted to the site so far cover any subject you can imagine; I have not yet been able to stump the site with a request. Flickr offers more than 200,000 images of the Golden Gate Bridge alone. Every conceivable angle, lighting condition and point of view of the Golden Gate Bridge has been photographed and posted. If you want to use an image of the bridge in your video or movie, there is really no reason to take a new picture of this bridge. It’s been done. All you need is a really easy way to find it. Similar advances have taken place with 3D models. On Google SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse, you can find insanely detailed three-dimensional virtual models of most major building structures of the world. Need a street in San Francisco? Here’s a filmable virtual set. With powerful search and specification tools, high-resolution clips of any bridge in the world can be circulated into the common visual dictionary for reuse. Out of these ready-made “words,” a film can be assembled, mashed up from readily available parts. The rich databases of component images form a new grammar for moving images.
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      Similar advances are also occuring with 3D models and photography. Photographers can now upload thousands of their images to sites such as Flickr, and share it with others. There are 3 billion photos uploaded of Flickr as of now.
  • hyperlinks, which connect one piece of text to another
  • tags, which categorize a selected word or phrase for later sorting.
  • All these inventions (and more) permit any literate person to cut and paste ideas, annotate them with her own thoughts, link them to related ideas, search through vast libraries of work, browse subjects quickly, resequence texts, refind material, quote experts and sample bits of beloved artists. These tools, more than just reading, are the foundations of literacy.
  • Expert software can be used to identify the key frames in a film in order to maximize the effectiveness of the summary.
  • 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
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      In the near future, computers will be able to recognize a human face. With this ability, a computer can then search for the same face or a substitute showing a desired emotion.
  • With our fingers we will drag objects out of films and cast them in our own movies. A click of our phone camera will capture a landscape, then display its history, which we can use to annotate the image. Text, sound, motion will continue to merge into a single intermedia as they flow through the always-on network. With the assistance of screen fluency tools we might even be able to summon up realistic fantasies spontaneously. Standing before a screen, we could create the visual image of a turquoise rose, glistening with dew, poised in a trim ruby vase, as fast as we could write these words. If we were truly screen literate, maybe even faster. And that is just the opening scene.
Casey Reilly

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    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      As new technology comes in, old technology,well gets old I suppose. For example, with everyone accessing e-mail at home, work, and even on cell phones, layoffs are affecting US Post Offices because of the decline in "snail mail." The same is seen in this article about the change in movie standards. Now short flicks you can watch on your iPod or cell are becoming the "in" thing
  • The overthrow of the book would have happened long ago but for the great user asymmetry inherent in all media. It is easier to read a book than to write one; easier to listen to a song than to compose one; easier to attend a play than to produce one. But movies in particular suffer from this user asymmetry. The intensely collaborative work needed to coddle chemically treated film and paste together its strips into movies meant that it was vastly easier to watch a movie than to make one. A Hollywood blockbuster can take a million person-hours to produce and only two hours to consume. But now, cheap and universal tools of creation (megapixel phone cameras, Photoshop, iMovie) are quickly reducing the effort needed to create moving images. To the utter bafflement of the experts who confidently claimed that viewers would never rise from their reclining passivity, tens of millions of people have in recent years spent uncountable hours making movies of their own design. Having a ready and reachable audience of potential millions helps, as does the choice of multiple modes in which to create. Because of new consumer gadgets, community training, peer encouragement and fiendishly clever software, the ease of making video now approaches the ease of writing.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      it is hard not to be children of the screen in these times. With the power of movie makers at our exposal and with youtube making the distibution of it easy anyone can make a movie that is just as popular than a blockbuster hit. This kind of power is almost hard to resist for most people and making them part of the world surounded by screens, by being in them. Also for the people who watch them are becoming children of the screen.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      I couldn't even imagine a world without paperbooks. I am aware of Kindles and eReaders, but a few slim paperbacks are much more appealing than a cumbersome computer book. Sure it would save money, but so does library. Also, what happens when you are right on the last chapter of a mystery book and the battery dies on that Kindle? Real books don't die.
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  • An emerging set of cheap tools is now making it easy to create digital video. There were more than 10 billion views of video on YouTube in September. The most popular videos were watched as many times as any blockbuster movie. Many are mashups of existing video material. Most vernacular video makers start with the tools of Movie Maker or iMovie, or with Web-based video editing software like Jumpcut. They take soundtracks found online, or recorded in their bedrooms, cut and reorder scenes, enter text and then layer in a new story or novel point of view. Remixing commercials is rampant. A typical creation might artfully combine the audio of a Budweiser “Wassup” commercial with visuals from “The Simpsons” (or the Teletubbies or “Lord of the Rings”). Recutting movie trailers allows unknown auteurs to turn a comedy into a horror flick, or vice versa.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      The use of free or small priced, easy-to-use editing software turns anyone into a moviemaker. In high school, I got paid to make little slideshows for family events. When people asked what I used, assuming it was something technologically hard to understand, they were stunned to find it was the simple Windows Movie Maker. Then with the advent of YouTube and other video sharing websites, everyone could sign up for a "director's" account just to add more videos.
  • The collective intelligence of humans can also be used to make a film more accessible. Avid fans dissect popular movies scene by scene. With maniacal attention to detail, movie enthusiasts will extract bits of dialogue, catalog breaks in continuity, tag appearances of actors and track a thousand other traits. To date most fan responses appear in text form, on sites like the Internet Movie Database. But increasingly fans respond to video with video. The Web site Seesmic encourages “video conversations” by enabling users to reply to one video clip with their own video clip. The site organizes the sprawling threads of these visual chats so that they can be read like a paragraph of dialogue.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      The Internet truly is a an online "community" and just like in the real world people love to break down tv shows and movies. Websites with message boards and forums allow you to critique and praise scenes, lines, and actors. However, new technology can allow you to post the specific movie and even comment on a particular time or scene. Also, you can post your commentary as your own video.
  • When technology shifts, it bends the culture. Once, long ago, culture revolved around the spoken word. The oral skills of memorization, recitation and rhetoric instilled in societies a reverence for the past, the ambiguous, the ornate and the subjective. Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      today it seems almost primitive to write someone a letter, and tell someone something in person when you could just email, txt or call them. thats the world we live in today, oral skills and the ability to speak well which is one of the best abilities a singular person could have are being deminished. there once was a time when an entire nation could be rallied by the voice of a person.
  • 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.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      It is almost like we have been trained our whole lives to be children of the screen. with movie editing and construction so much like textual literacy it is easy for someone to make the transaction. you can be an amazing writter and once you are able to get the proper software you can be a movie maker in no time and making youtube hits.
  • For directors who speak this new cinematographic language, even the most photo-realistic scenes are tweaked, remade and written over frame by frame. Filmmaking is thus liberated from the stranglehold of photography. Gone is the frustrating method of trying to capture reality with one or two takes of expensive film and then creating your fantasy from whatever you get.
    • Casey Reilly
      Casey Reilly on 24 Sep 09
       
      even for photographers the screen and movie advance is invading their teritory. most pictures today are already being digitaly touched up and layerd to be better, but why and try get a single perfact picture when you can fitso much more into a movie and capture so much more images. Today not many people only want a singular image that can go so far even with interpratation, they want an entire sequence of events that tell stories in themselves.
Gena Broadus

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  • For the most part all civilizations are converging toward one global flavor of technology.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology is truly beginning to bridge generations. Even though we speak different languages, there is a common goal. As with previous inventions, such as telephones, printing presses, etc, they are cross cultural. We seem to have similar goals.
  • Today, technology has converged so that how we build urban life is very similar around the world. We perceive that some places are "ahead" or "behind" others. California is ahead in solar, or the US is behind in bandwidth. Or we say that Africa is leapfrogging in cell phone use. In our heads we have a sense of a uniform development path. While specific cultures may drift a little sideways in the river of technological advance, the flow is all in one direction.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      We must remember that there is such thing as relativity. Poverty in the US is a whole different animal than poverty in Africa, for example. The same goes with technology. However, technology is being used to help future generations escape this poverty.
  • My hunch is that we are headed towards a path between 2 and 3.  For the most part, technology will converge to uniform usage around the globe, but occasionally some group, or subgroup, will devise and perfect a type of technology or technique that has limited appeal. But that subgroup or group will not continue to produce further isolated innovations in a sustainable offshoot -- simply because the advantages and pressures of a global society constrain success towards a global standard. (Note this technological convergence should not be confused with the media-centric technological convergence predicted for television, movies, books and the internet, although that will probably happen too.)
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    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      Even though technological advances are somewhat relative to various countries and cultures, they are beginning to merge. Certain things that wowed us years ago are the big thing in other cultures. Things that we don't even consider "tech" anymore, such as running water, are still future aspirations in some places. It is weird to think that electricity itself is still not in some places.
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      Even though some tech is relative, we are coming closer to merging. Certain things that were big for us years ago are just hitting other markets. Some things that were once considered "tech," such as running water, are still in the future for some people. It's hard to believe that some things that we don't even think of as tech anymore such as electricity are still not a reality for people.
  • Fourth, the forces that conspire towards convergence don't seem to have strong counter-forces, suggesting that convergence will tighten over time. Perhaps in one hundred years, or two, technological development will not vary much around the globe. In this sense "the future will be more evenly distributed" to paraphrase William Gibson. In reaction to this homogeneity, perhaps the variation we see in regions we will see in individuals. People will choose to abstain or forsake particular global standards of technology in a form of idiosyncratic distinction. (See my post on the Neo-Amish.)  They will re-distribute the future themselves. But like the Amish they will harbor these "redistributions" as a personal choice within an ocean of planetary convergence. When everyone has access to all technologies (and all the same technologies), no one will have time to use or load them all. Then the only course will be to carry or "distribute" your personal slice of the technium. In this way while the planetary culture slides toward convergence of technologies, billions of technology users will diverge in their personal choices as they edge toward using smaller and more eccentric selections of available stuff. Your identity will be displayed by what you don't use.
    • Gena Broadus
      Gena Broadus on 24 Sep 09
       
      After a while I believe a couple of coporations will own all the marketing outlets. Therefore they will force everyone to use their products because theirs will be the only ones with products avalible
    • Rachel Cofer
      Rachel Cofer on 23 Sep 09
       
      Some groups rebuke technology as evil. These plain people, however, separate themselves and do not get in the way of making new products. Hopefully, some day we will come to having a uniform technology. I think that at this point those of us in major countries can stop where we are and allow everyone else to catch up.
    • Gena Broadus
      Gena Broadus on 24 Sep 09
       
      We are always making advances in technology. Technology is constant just as "time" is. All countries feel a need to keep up with the new wave of communication to make sure messages are sent and received.The thought is to have a world wide system to make transactions easier to the common good.
    • Gena Broadus
      Gena Broadus on 24 Sep 09
       
      Comparing advances in technology is a never ending cycle of communication.Technology is only used for communication with others.We are always connect with the media we are consumed with. One place might have a system and it might be considered their new technology but somewhere else there system is exactly the same so Who is to say which one is NEWIER
    • Gena Broadus
      Gena Broadus on 24 Sep 09
       
      I dont ever believe the world will ever be on the same playing field when it comes to technology. I believe we will al be completeing the same task using different methods. Different frachises will want people endorsing their products Ex: Vista, Google,Microsoft
Guillermo Santamaria

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  • A significant advantage of OLED displays over traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) is that OLEDs do not require a backlight to function. Thus, they can display deep black levels, draw far less power, and can be much thinner and lighter than an LCD panel. OLED displays also naturally achieve much higher contrast ratio than LCD monitors
  • The biggest technical problem for OLEDs is the limited lifetime of the organic materials.[44] In particular, blue OLEDs historically have had a lifetime of around 14,000 hours (five years at 8 hours a day) when used for flat-panel displays, which is lower than the typical lifetime of LCD, LED or PDP technology—each currently rated for about 60,000 hours, depending on manufacturer and model. However, some manufacturers of OLED displays claim to have come up with a way to solve this problem with a new technology to increase the lifespan of OLED displays, pushing their expected life past that of LCD displays.[45] A metal membrane helps deliver light from polymers in the substrate throughout the glass surface more efficiently than current OLEDs. The result is the same picture quality with half the brightness and a doubling of the screen's expected life.[46] In 2007, experimental OLEDs were created which can sustain 400 cd/m² of luminance for over 198,000 hours for green OLEDs and 62,000 hours for blue OLEDs.[47] Additionally, as consequence of the fact that light emitting components of different colors have different lifetimes, it's obvious that the quality of a color picture would degrade over time since emission of each color reduces by a different amount. At some point color picture quality would become unacceptable, so overall display lifetime could be even worse than lifetime of separate components because many uses are putting certain requirements on picture quality. This can be partially avoided by adjusting color balance but this may require advanced control circuits and interaction with user, which is unacceptable for some uses. The intrusion of water into displays can damage or destroy the organic materials. Therefore, improved sealing processes are important for practical manufacturing and may limit the longevity of more flexible displays.[48]
Steven Beck

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    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      It is important to notice that the inventions that people come up with are no longer the most important aspect. It really is the way that those inventions are now able to adapt to the new technology out there. When these new inventions are able to adapt, new ideas are then proposed and the structure of information is now radically reshaped. Although the inventions should still be highly recognized, society now has to be able to take all of those inventions and alter them to the constantly changing society.
  • The major transitions in their histories are passages from one level of informational organization to another emergent level of order. Rather than catalog important inventions such as iron, steam power, or electricity, it is far more useful to dwell on how the structure of information is reshaped by new technology.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Tehnology has become so advanced in the on coming years that it is hard to keep ontop pf what is occurring in the world. We no longer need to catalog important inventions, but rather how the world reacts to the newest inventions. Technology is over taking the world, and is changing lives everyday. We must focus on how we handle these new additions to life and adapt instead of documenting the dates of the new inventions.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      When people get info then tend to pass the info on to another person. That is the same way when people learn about technology, is that they way to pass the word on to let other sknow about the new technology. As the info gets passed on, the meaning of what is trying to be said might get lost in translation. Everyone always wants to know about the newest and latest technology out on the market.
  • No transition has affected our species, or the world at large, more than the creation of language. Indeed many would define humanity by its possession of true language.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Language is the base of all mankind. It is the way we interact as well as communicate. Without language, there wouldn't even be a thing called technology. Language brings upon words which allows us to communicate not only by mouth but by reading and writing. Believe it or not, language is the base of all technology.
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    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      The creation of language was by far the most important aspect in the world just by the way it has broken the barrier between people. Although at times people may think that because a person speaks a different language such as english and spanish, it may be hard to communicate with that person. However, I think that one of important ways of language would be the technical language. Regardless of whether or not a person speaks english or spanish when it comes to working with technology it is the same across the board.
  • Over time language also enabled information to be stored in a memory greater than an individual’s recall. A language-based culture accumulated stories and oral wisdom to disseminate to future generations. T
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Language has become the stepping stones to a technology based future. Once language was created and people learned to turn language into words, books were invented. Once books weren't efficient enough, humans decided to think outside the box. Through the use of technology, the computer was made, making it easier to communicate with different human languages. Technology is advancing everyday. Whether it be as simple as book or piece of paper, technology is rapidly changing. Is it for the good of mankind, or for the worst? I guess you can safely say it is a little bit of both.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      If a group of people speak the same language, then they all would have the same stories. Some people might forget some while others might remember other things. In the end, the more people you have the better the chance a group has to pass on stories to future generations.
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      It is interesting that it speaks about how information can be stored in a memory greater than a person could ever recall. This sentence makes me think about what we discussed in class the other day about the only way to ensure that you can get your information back again today is through the internet. By saving files on the internet, people are able to always access them. As before people used to rely on books to store all the information needed, people are now turning to the internet to do this job instead.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      Writing has become a very important attribute to the world. It allows us to write down ideas that can be later refered to, and possibly be used to better the every growing world. The idea of writing has expanded into ascepts in life we use on a more regualr basis, such as laws enforced by government and a calendar to write down important dates and actually know the date.
  • 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.
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Unfortunately, we believe that we can keep our lives private. However, there is no such thing as privacy anymore. Anyone or anything can communicate with you by any means necessary. Technology is going to a whole new level and is making communication a much easier thing to do. Just when you think your privacy is protected, think again, because someone will always be watching. Anyone can communicate with you, even if you do not want to communicate with them. One day, all items, technology, as well as humans, will have RFID chips installed into them, making communication easier, and making privacy non-existent.
  • No transition has affected our species, or the world at large, more than the creation of language. Indeed many would define humanity by its possession of true language. The informational aspects of language are now obvious.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      The reason that langauge is the largest transition is because without language their would be no way for us to communicate. Being able to use language is the quickest way to communicate, because if we did not speak the only way for us to commnictae would be by drawing something or to use sign language and the only way that works is if someone is looking at us. Also the other benefit is that with language we can talk to someone and not have to look at them.
    • Ashley Zielinski
      Ashley Zielinski on 23 Sep 09
       
      It is amazing to think that this is the world that we are coming to after looking back on where we came from regarding information. Technology is now focusing on order and ensuring that the world is improving as each day passes. By giving technology a meaning of what it is, is only helping our society grow into becoming something bigger and more improved. As before people would have to interact with an object in order to get it to respond, now an object will be able to respond on its own.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      The world would have never evolved if it weren't for the creation of language. Language defines humanity, showing the knowlegde we gain. When language changed we were also able to see the diversity among the different people living in the world. We need to stay ontop of the language we have create and be prepared for any changes that may happen with the evolution of the world.
  • 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.
    • Steven Beck
      Steven Beck on 23 Sep 09
       
      This refers back to that everything will be able to become a smart object, and can communicate with other objects. Also everything will contian RFID tags, which then can be tracked and give out information depending upon what it is. Eventually everything will become one big virtual world, which will make everything much easier since then the world will come to you instead of you going to the world.
    • Danielle Hawkins
      Danielle Hawkins on 23 Sep 09
       
      We are in the middle of the growing world of technology. We need to embrace the changings that are happening and the ones that are on the way. Once we start to graps the reins of technology we will only be bettering ourselves. We will be living in the web in the future, so now is the time to prepare, and gain all the knowlege we can ablout the changings that are occuring now.
  • The invention of writing systems for language and math structured this learning even more. Ideas could be remembered more accurately, and just as importantly, their organization could be examined and analyzed. Ideas could also be indexed, retrieved, and propagated easier. Writing allowed the organization of information to penetrate into many aspects of life and vastly accelerated trade, creation of calendars, and laws – all of which organized information furthe
    • Cameron Nichols
      Cameron Nichols on 23 Sep 09
       
      Reading and writing as well as math has become easier to do as technology progresses. Programs such as word and excel make reading and math as simple as clicking the mouse to a computer. Writing information down and using your brain to solve problems were only stepping stones to the future of reading and math. Humans come up with new ways everyday to make math as well as reading an easier task to accomplish, simply by using a computer.
Guillermo Santamaria

Digital Domain - Will Piracy Become a Problem for E-Books? - NYTimes.com - 11 views

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  • But e-books won’t stay on the periphery of book publishing much longer. E-book hardware is on the verge of going mainstream. More dedicated e-readers are coming, with ever larger screens. So, too, are computer tablets that can serve as giant e-readers, and hardware that will not be very hard at all: a thin display flexible enough to roll up into a tube.
  • With the new devices in hand, will book buyers avert their eyes from the free copies only a few clicks away that have been uploaded without the copyright holder’s permission? Mindful of what happened to the music industry at a similar transitional juncture, book publishers are about to discover whether their industry is different enough to be spared a similarly dismal fate.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      This is what has been predicted for a time now by visionaries like Kevin Kelly and others. The publishers will have to come up with a new business model. Of course authors and publishers have to make money! But they can no longer do it by keeping knowledge and thoughts away from the public. The internet is democratizing all knowledge. The model of charging someone for information will have to change.
  • Total e-book sales, though up considerably this year, remained small, at $81.5 million, or 1.6 percent of total book sales through July.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      This is partly because of the resistance of some publishers to see Amazon as their friend. Despite their high-tech approach they are still following an outdated business model. They are a transitional force.
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  • We do know that people have been helping themselves to digital music without paying. When the music industry was “Napsterized” by free file-sharing, it suffered a blow from which it hasn’t recovered.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      This is a curious statement to make since record companies for decades have been "helping themselves" to the work of artists, stealing from them and in some cases not even paying them royalties (James Brown).
  • Publishers and authors are about the only groups that go unmentioned. Ms. Scheid, of RapidShare, has advice for them if they are unhappy that her company’s users are distributing e-books without paying the copyright holders: Learn from the band Nine Inch Nails. It marketed itself “by giving away most of their content for free.”
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      Why are they not listed? Because publishers and authors of the magnitude they speak of are NOT "ordinary citizens."
  • After verifying that each file claiming to be the book actually was, Attributor reported that 166 copies of the e-book were available on 11 sites. RapidShare accounted for 102.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      This attempt to stop one site will fail because hundreds of others will spring up until they give up trying to stop it.
  • My book reappeared on RapidShare a few days after it was taken down
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      Of course!!!!
  • A report earlier this year by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, based on multiple studies in 16 countries covering three years, estimated that 95 percent of music downloads “are unauthorized, with no payment to artists and producers.”
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      The new age is coming. New business models have to be formulated. Copyright laws have become the enemy of progress and human advancement.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
  • as soon as authors can pack arenas full and pirated e-books can serve as concert fliers.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 05 Oct 09
       
      This is just ONE business model that happens to apply to the music industry. There are OTHER models that will apply to the publishing industry.
Guillermo Santamaria

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • For example, they want to be online “books,” “editions,” “encyclopedias,” “bookshelves,” “libraries,” “archives,” “repositories” or (a newer metaphor) “portals.” Such structures are supposed to make intuitive the relation between individual documents and other documents. But, frankly, many of those structures didn’t work too well even in the golden age of print. (Show me one person who has made a serendipitous discovery while wandering the library stacks, and I will show you a thousand whose eyes glazed over at the sheer anomie, inefficiency, and meaninglessness of it all.) They especially don’t work well now when stretched to describe online technologies that actually behave nothing like a book, edition, library and so on. My group thinks that Web 2.0 offers a different kind of metaphor: not a containing structure but a social experience. Reading environments should not be books or libraries. They should be like the historical coffeehouses, taverns and pubs where one shifts flexibly between focused and collective reading — much like opening a newspaper and debating it in a more socially networked version of the current New York Times Room for Debate. The future of peripheral attention is social networking, and the trick is to harness such attention — some call it distraction — well.
  • Electronic reading has become progressively easier as computer screens have improved and readers have grown accustomed to using them. Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
  • Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new “reading circuit” afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity. Equally interesting, this tabula rasa circuit is shaped by the particular requirements of the writing system: for example, Chinese reading circuits require more visual memory than alphabets. This “open architecture” of the reading circuit makes the young reader’s developing circuit malleable to what the medium (e.g., digital online reading, book, etc) emphasizes.
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  • To a great extent, the computer’s usefulness for serious reading depends on the user’s strength of character. Distractions abound on most people’s computer screens. The reading speed reported in academic studies does not include delays induced by clicking away from the text to see the new email that just arrived or check out what’s new on your favorite blog. In one study, workers switched tasks about every three minutes and took over 23 minutes on average to return to a task. Frequent task switching costs time and interferes with the concentration needed to think deeply about what you read.
  • The screen technology, electronic ink, avoids some disadvantages of monitors, such as backlighting and flicker, but it remains awkward to scan through multiple pages.
  • Paper retains substantial advantages, though, for types of reading that require flipping back and forth between pages, such as articles with end notes or figures.
  • In brief, this brain learns to access and integrate within 300 milliseconds a vast array of visual, semantic, sound (or phonological), and conceptual processes, which allows us to decode and begin to comprehend a word. At that point, for most of us our circuit is automatic enough to allocate an additional precious 100 to 200 milliseconds to an even more sophisticated set of comprehension processes that allow us to connect the decoded words to inference, analogical reasoning, critical analysis, contextual knowledge, and finally, the apex of reading: our own thoughts that go beyond the text. This is what Proust called the heart of reading — when we go beyond the author’s wisdom and enter the beginning of our own.
  • The tools (as usual) are neutral. It’s up to us to insist that onscreen reading enhance, not replace, traditional book reading. It’s up to us to remember that the medium is not the message; that the meaning and music of the words is what matters, not the glitzy vehicle they arrive in.
  • When PC’s first entered the home in the 1980s, a number of studies comparing the effects of reading on an electronic display versus paper showed that reading was slower on a screen. However, displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper
  • They switch simple activities an average of every three minutes (e.g. reading email or IM) and switch projects about every 10 and a half minutes. It’s just not possible to engage in deep thought about a topic when we’re switching so rapidly
Joanna Zietara

The Technium: Better Than Free - 0 views

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  • Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow with as little friction as possible. Indeed, copies flow so freely we could think of the internet as a super-distribution system, where once a copy is introduced it will continue to flow through the network forever, much like electricity in a superconductive wire. We see evidence of this in real life. Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog knows you can't erase something once it's flowed on the internet.
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      The internet is a super distribution system; once a copy is made, it will flow freely through the internet. The copies are not erasable and they never leave. Once something is on the internet, it is impossible to get rid of it.
  • When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
  • why would we ever pay for anything that we could get for free?
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  • Eight Generatives Better Than Free
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      Valuable copies that can be sold.
  • Immediacy --
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      A valuable copy has immediacy. Time is very crucial, therefore a copy rises in value depending on its release date. A copy that is delivered to your inbox at the time of a completed production is much more valuable than a copy that is a week old and can be easily attained on the internet for free. The example used here is people and movie theaters. People will pay to see a movie the day it comes out even though they can see it on tv for free a year later.
  • Personalization -
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      Any copy that is "personalized" or "tweaked" is a lot more valuable than a generic version. Companies can "tweak" their product in order to appeal to a person based on their interests or previous products. That makes the copy much more valuable because it is original. The example used here is Aspirin. Aspirin is free but Aspirin tailored to your DNA is expensive.
  • Interpretation
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      A copy of something can be free, but the interpretation or meaning of the copy can be expensive.
  • Authenticity --
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      A buyer may be charged for a documents authenticity. The buyer is then sure that they are getting the authentic version of the document and that it is bug free.
  • Accessibility -
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      Backing up documents and copies is becoming more and more popular as people on the go do not have the time to keep their things tidy.
  • Embodiment --
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      The actual physical document may be expensive while the copy online may be free.
  • Patronage
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      Paying for a copy that is free simply because one is a fan or because they appreciate the work.
  • Findability --
    • Joanna Zietara
      Joanna Zietara on 23 Sep 09
       
      An easily accessible document is more valuable taking the amount of documents in consideration.
Cameron Nichols

Windows 7 Wins on Netbook PCs: Q&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows C... - 0 views

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  • With Windows 7, we’ve matched hardware improvements with some investments of our own. With Windows 7 we are on track to have a smaller OS footprint; an improved user interface that should allow for faster boot-up and shut-down times; improved power management for enhanced battery life; enhanced media capabilities; and increased reliability, stability and security. These engineering investments allow small notebook PCs to run any version of Windows 7, and allow customers complete flexibility to purchase a system which meets their needs. For OEMs that build lower-cost small notebook PCs, Windows 7 Starter will now be available in developed markets. For the most enhanced, full-functioning Windows experience on small notebook PCs, however, consumers will want to go with Windows 7 Home Premium, which lets you get the most out of your digital media and easily connect with other PCs.
Joanna Zietara

Takahashi method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Takahashi method is a technique of producing slides for presentations. It is similar to the Lessig method of presentations (credited to professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford). It is named for its inventor, Masayoshi Takahashi. Unlike a typical presentation, no picture and no charts are used. Only a few words are printed on each slide-- often only one or two short words, using very large characters. To make up for this, a presenter will use of many more slides than in a traditional presentation, each slide being shown for a much shorter duration.
Danielle Hawkins

The Climate Change Lobby - Articles - The 'Clean Coal' Lobbying Blitz - 0 views

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  • Since December, the Reality Coalition, a group of environmental interests led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, has run television ads of its own and plastered billboards in the nation’s capital with the message: “In reality, there’s no such thing as clean coal.” The coalition also has Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen directing ads spoofing ACCCE as a pitchman peddling room-blackening air spray that “harnesses the awesome power of the word clean.”

    The latest ad from the Reality Coalition, an environmental group led by former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, was directed by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. David Hawkins, director of climate programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, supports carbon capture research but says ACCCE’s approach won’t spur needed private investment. “They’re going to argue any climate program should be so slow-acting that essentially it doesn’t change business practices in the next 20 years or so, and that is simply incompatible with the needs of climate protection,” he says. “They have concluded it’s not politically viable to maintain a ‘just say no’ position, so now it’s ‘just say mañana.’”

    Brian Hardwick, a spokesman for the Reality Coalition, won’t say how much his group is spending on advertising, but says it aims to continue to counter coal’s messaging. “They’ve made a business decision, that it’s cheaper to spend $40 million on lobbying and advertising than hundreds of billions needed to make coal clean,” he says. “They’ve made a calculation that if they can stall, delay progress and mislead, they can avoid that investment.”

Jared Slaweski

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  • then so can the growing, complexifying technological assemblage we have surrounded ourselves with. Its complexity is approaching the complexity of a microscopic organism.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology is growing so fast that it is starting to have wants. Is technology eventually going to have many, complex wants like a human being? For example, robots. Technology is becoming more alive.
  • For the last 1,000 years, this techosphere has grown about 1.5% per year. It marks the difference between our lives now, verses 10,000 years ago. Our society is as dependent on this technological system as nature itself.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology changes so quickly that many people from previous generations can not keep up with new advancements. However, the world is now based on these technologies and could not function without them. Life over the past 1,000 years has been redefined because of this technium and has advanced our way of life in ways we do not even comprehend. No one could survive without technology.
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  • More ways, more choices. Over time technological advances invent more energy efficient methods, and gravitate to technologies which compress the most information and knowledge into a given space or weight. Also over time, more of more of matter on the planet will be touched by technological processes. Also, technologies tend toward ubiquity and cheapness. They also tend towards new levels of complexity (though many will get simpler, too).
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology will continue to get smarter, smaller, faster, and cheaper. Therefore, technology will be more widespread through out the world. These technologies will be able to hold more information and do more tasks while taking up little or no space. Technology will continue to change and reinvent itself.
  • • The varieties of whatever will increase. Those varieties that give humans more free choices will prevail. •  Technologies will start out general in their first version, and specialize over time. Going niche will always be going with the flow. There is almost no end to how specialized (and tiny) some niches can get. •  You can safely anticipate higher energy efficiency, more compact meaning and everything getting smarter. •  All are headed to ubiquity and free. What flips when everyone has one? What happens when it is free? •  Any highly evolved form becomes beautiful, which can be its own attraction. •  Over time the fastest moving technology will become more social, more co-dependent, more ecological, more deeply entwined with other technologies. Many technologies require scaffolding tech to be born first. •  The trend is toward enabling technologies which become tools for inventing new technologies easiest, faster, cheaper. •  High tech needs clean water, clean air, reliable energy just as much as humans want the same.
    • Lauren Trogdon
      Lauren Trogdon on 23 Sep 09
       
      Technology is a tool to create new technologies. These advancements will create a better life. Information will be even more easily accessed and shared. Which will hopefully will lead to new cures and inventions to better our planet.
  • None of these parts operate independently. No mechanical system can function by itself. Each bit of technology requires the viability and growth of all the rest of technology to keep going. There is no communication without the nerves of electricity.
    • Jared Slaweski
      Jared Slaweski on 27 Sep 09
       
      In nature, most things happens because of some other action. Land is created when lava pours out of a volcano. Technology follows a simlilar path. The growth of technology depends on the technology around it.
  • Once they discover electricity, their electronics will share some, but not all, attributes with our electrical devices. That which they share can be counted as the inherent agenda of electrical technology. Throughout  the galaxy any civilization  that invents nuclear power will hit  upon a small set of workable solutions: that set is the inherent "agenda" of technology.
  • ) More importantly, the major predecessor system to technology is organic life. Many of the dynamics of evolution and syntropy extend from living organisms into artificial systems, primarily because they share similar disequilibrial states.
  • In the long run, technology increases the speed at which it evolves and encourages its own means of invention to change. It aims to keep the game of change going.   
Danielle Hawkins

TMIO Oven - cooking over the Internet...? | Trendir - 0 views

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  • MIO oven is made by TMIO company in Cleveland, OH, and is available for around $2,500 for a single and around $4,000 for a double-wall version. TMIO
Guillermo Santamaria

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  • Other performance improvements reduce the amount of disk I/O for reading from the registry and indexing files for search, and improve low-level kernel operations that could slow down access to the Start menu and Taskbar. Windows 7 also loads fewer services when you boot. This doesn’t just get you started more quickly; it means there are fewer services actively resident in memory just because you might need them. When you do something that requires a service, Windows 7 loads the service on demand and then unloads it once it’s no longer required—thus freeing up memory.
Linda Cranmer

Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • As moving images become easier to create, easier to store, easier to annotate and easier to combine into complex narratives, they also become easier to be remanipulated by the audience. This gives images a liquidity similar to words. Fluid images­ made up of bits flow rapidly onto new screens and can be put to almost any use. Flexible images migrate into new media and seep into the old. Like alphabetic bits, they can be squeezed into links or stretched to fit search engines, indexes and databases. They invite the same satisfying participation in both creation and consumption that the world of text does.
    • Linda Cranmer
      Linda Cranmer on 27 Sep 09
       
      As it becomes easier to manipulate and remanipulate moving images and they look as fluid as words, we will have to be even more careful about being not being fooled by what we see in film. For entertainment, this is fine. But for film put out to be accurate accounts of events, it could be a problem. The old saying of "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see" will need to be changed - don't necessarily believe anything you see.
Cameron Nichols

Semantic Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • he Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.[1][2] It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.[3]
Guillermo Santamaria

Apple Tablet: Magazine Industry Eyes ITunes for Print - Advertising Age - MediaWorks - 0 views

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  • The music industry whines like little babies - they spent HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS pushing their locked format that NO ONE WANTED. They spent HUNDREDS of MILLIONS trying to create a locked CD that could be defeated by a marker or resulted in a class action lawsuit. NO ONE will buy a TIME INC tablet or a CONDE NAST tablet to read digital versions of the magazine ... they have to come up something better. First of all, they can't even figure put how to get around postage increases or the fact the newstand has changed in 100 years - all they do is complain that they miss a world where only magazines could print in color or 25% of American read LIFE - it's a new world - get used to it. INNOVATE and stop WHINING. Coming up with your own tablet is NOT innovation - that's like coming up with a leather jacket for a print magazine. THINK more and cry less.
    • Guillermo Santamaria
      Guillermo Santamaria on 12 Oct 09
       
      YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! This comment is TOTALLY on!
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