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Lauren Trogdon

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

  • 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
       
      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.
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      -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
  • 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.
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      -Technology is now replacing technology -Cheaper films -How far will it go? -May no longer need human actors/actresses
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  • 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
       
      -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
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The Technium: What Technology Wants - 0 views

  • 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
       
      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.
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      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
       
      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
       
      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.
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