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Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Wikileaks and the Decentralization of Power: Recap of the Arg... - 0 views

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worlds end wikileaks technology teaching

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  • How do you know you're in a 1.0 world?  Everyone is afraid.
  • We can watch, helpless or we can commit to finding ways to use this new technology to think new thoughts--about government, citizenship, politics, participation, ownership, teaching, community, justice.
Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Bang a Gong, Walter Ong: After Orality and Literacy - 0 views

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begin worlds literacy writing change

shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.
  • irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.
  • Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing
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  • The move from a print-centric to a network-centric world? Is this globally significant? Does this revolution in human communication have a cultural dynamic?
  • In this universe, everything revolves around the publisher who controls access to the means of production.
  • Web 2.0, which allows all readers to become writers, is the end of publishing as we have known it since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press
  • Writers still have their dog-earred personal copies of books ready to hand, but now they also have all been issued keys to the globe's virtual Alexandria Library. 
  • the advent of Web 2.0 is the sign of that the apocalypse is at hand and that what lies ahead is a shattering of all the organizing structures of contemporary reality
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