For the NMS this semester, just read Kay and Goldberg’s (1977) “Personal Dynamic Media,” which was more or less a product review for their proposed and in-the-works “Dynabook.” It had its interesting aspects: seeing that in 1977 the concept of…
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Networks not chains
Reading selections from Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect” piece for the New Media Seminar. It’s interesting to read this with several different lenses. Two that struck me quickly were the Technologist and the Rhetorician lenses. The technological thinking here in terms…
Revising Boundaries: Bricks and clouds
For the New Media Symposium this semester, I just read Vandevar Bush’s “As We May Think” (1945), but before I go to comment on that, I’d like to make a comment about ideas floating around in the clouds-in-my-head from Murray’s…
Test Post for New Media Seminar
Hi all! Testing testing…testing the feed. Looking very forward to participating in this semester’s New Media Seminar. I’ve been talking with others who have participated in the past and remember when Shelli and Gardner Campbell were first ruminating about this…