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.
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Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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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.
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In fact, the habits of the mashup are borrowed from textual literacy. You cut and paste words on a page. You quote verbatim from an expert. You paraphrase a lovely expression. You add a layer of detail found elsewhere. You borrow the structure from one work to use as your own. You move frames around as if they were phrases.
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It is 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.
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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