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The Next Great Discontinuity: Part 1:Grapholectic Thought an the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
Rourke: Our error is to mistake grapholectic thought - thought maintained by writing and print - as the only kind of thought we are capable of.
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Our modern notion of “truth” denies all wisdom that cannot be plotted on a graph; that cannot be traced backwards through the recorded evidence or textual archive.
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Thus the attribution of meaning emerges from the present, synchronic situation, rather than being reliant on the consequences of past observation:
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The Ambassadors – look and learn
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, is a portrait of two Frenchmen, one an ambassador to the court of King Henry VIII, the other a cleric. They are leaning on a cupboard with displays, on the upper shelf objects referring to the heavens and, on
The end of journalism
There have always been reporters, but will there always be professionals? George Brock in his review of Robert Fox's Eyewitness to History: "The idea and ideal of journalism has been smudged and blurred by worries about economics and the means of delivery
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
"But for Ferguson devotees, this book nevertheless comes as something of a surprise. Its thesis, putting money at the centre of world events, is in striking contradiction to his previous work of financial history, The Cash Nexus (2002), which argued that
Beyond Blogs
In this revisit of the 2005 article, the authors make the point that businesses need to watch not just blogs, but all emerging social media.
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
"What makes a scientific experiment beautiful? Johnson favors simplicity — not just clean, artful experiments, but those that let us replace convoluted theories with simple explanations."
Worlds at War by Anthony Pagden
"A more balanced approach would acknowledge that, if the West has achieved things we hold sacred — as we should — it has always been the result of internal struggle. What are now the cherished principles of Western civilization, from democracy to raci
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British Library to launch email archive
"Millions of emails are to be stored at the British Library in a unique project to preserve present day communications for future generations, it was announced today."
The Internet
"Well there's a revolution going on in rec rooms, offices, classrooms around the world..." It's the Internet.
Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
A resource provided by R. H. Zakon that includes a section on <a href="http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/#Growth">Internet growth</a>.
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