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THE AGE OF THE INFORMAVORE- A Talk with Frank Schirrmacher
We are apparently now in a situation where modern technology is changing the way people behave, people talk, people react, people think, and people remember. And you encounter this not only in a theoretical way, but when you meet people, when suddenly people start forgetting things, when suddenly people depend on their gadgets, and other stuff, to remember certain things. This is the beginning, its just an experience. But if you think about it and you think about your own behavior, you suddenly realize that something fundamental is going on. There is one comment on Edge which I love, which is in Daniel Dennett's response to the 2007 annual question, in which he said that we have a population explosion of ideas, but not enough brains to cover them.
Foreword from "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
Future of Social Media: Is a Tweet the New Size of a Thought?
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consider the emerging Twitter practice NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen calls "mindcasting." It may begin as just a seed of an idea — a thought about the future of online media, say — tossed out into the germinating medium of the twitterverse, passed along from one Twitter feed to another, critiqued or praised, reshaped and edited, then handed back for fleshing out on a blog, first, and then, perhaps, in a book. It's not that tweet-size sparks of insight haven't always been part of the media ecosystem, in other words. It's just that Twitter now has given them a vastly more exciting social life.
Word Of The Moment: Mindcasting
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Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.
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I favor streaming as the core verb for all these activities, anyway. Casting is too strongly related to broadcast, which is strange, considering Jay is the guy who coined the term "the people formerly known as the audience" to get away from the info producer/consumer dialectic.
On Twitter, mindcasting is the new lifecasting | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Twitter, the micro-messaging service where users broadcast short thoughts to one another, has been widely labeled the newest form of digital narcissism. And if it’s not self-obsession tweeters are accused of, it’s self-promotion, solipsism or flat out frivolousness.
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There’s already a vibrant community of Twitter users who are using the system to share and filter the hyper-glut of online information with ingenious efficiency. Forget what you had for breakfast or how much you hate Mondays. That’s just lifecasting.
Mindcasting is where it’s at. -
Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.
The New Literacy and the CMS
The biggest problem I have with Blackboard (and other vertical CMS platforms) is that the knowledge, materials and conversation generated by the class is walled off from the rest of the world. - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed
The World Without Technology
The problem with this line of questioning is that technology predated our humanness. Many other animals used tools millions of years before humans. Chimpanzees made (and of course still make) hunting tools from thin sticks to extract termites from mounds, or slam rocks to break nuts. Even termites themselves construct vast towering shells of mud for their homes. Ants herd aphids and farm fungi in gardens. Birds weave elaborate twiggy fabrics for their nests. The strategy of bending the environment to use as if it were part of your body is a billion year old trick at least.
Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College
If America wants to continue to be a world-leader, we can do it with a technology advantage - but only if we actually know how to leverage that technology to continue to be more productive.
So, I began to write out a list of the tech skills that I think students should learn before they leave college. Ideally, these are skills that would be integrated throughout K-12 and college curricula.
A Better Pencil
In this electronic age, new writing technologies seem to proliferate and evolve with alarming speed -- but of course, people have been coming up with new ways to communicate their thoughts for as long as language has existed at all. Writing itself -- writes Dennis Baron -- was once the object of much suspicion; Plato wrote that it could attenuate human memory, since writing things down would obviate the need to memorize them. In his new book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford University Press), Baron looks at the history of writing implements and communication technologies, and explores the digital revolution's impact on how we write, how we learn, and how we connect with one another. - Inside Higher Ed
How Tiny Nanoparticles Are Transforming Technology : NPR
From cancer treatments to self-cleaning windows and clear solar panels, nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine, renewable energy and computing. Chemists Mark Ratner and James Gimzewski discuss what's special about nanoscale particles, and how they may shape the future.
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand" (as University College of London English professor John Sutherland has moaned). An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001
This edition of the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook
coincides with both the start of the new millennium and the 25th
Anniversary of the AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology
Policy. In recognition of these events, it takes both a retrospective and prospective look at S&T policy, and examines the mutual impacts of technology and society.
Rants & Raves on "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"
Wired's fundamental mission is to be one such setting: a forum for new ideas and arguments, frequently celebrating the revolutions occurring in science and technology, but never afraid to explore any troubling implications as well. Obviously, we don't have all the answers, but we do know some of the best and most important questions. As the future rushes up to meet us, we intend to keep asking them. (Wired 8.07)
A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
Why the Future Still Needs Us a While Longer
Response to Bill Joy
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Molecular biologist Lee Silver says that while in theory it would be possible to attack males via the Y-chromosome, it now seems we share too much DNA for all women or any one race to be at risk.
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In practice, scientists still haven't figured out how to get artificial nanostructures to self-clone.
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