F14 Awakening the Digital Imagination
New Media Seminar for Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students Fall 14
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October 9, 2014

Imagination, Sirius, and a Federation of Planets

The third section of Douglas Engelbart’s Augmenting Human Intellect is another entry in a long history of science fiction’s contemporary relevance. Enlightenment thinker Voltaire used his 1752 story “Micromegas” to provoke Western ideas that had been accepted carte blanche. Not an uncommon motif during the French Enlightenment, visitors from outer space (for Voltaire, the visitor […]

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jgrun1 f14nms, New Media

October 9, 2014

14 NMS_04 Search and Structure

14 NMS_04 Search and Structure ref:  Doug Engelbart, “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” A question arises early in this work; what is the relationship…

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jbsstt

October 9, 2014

Jeffrey on Steroids

Jeffrey on Steroids

The release of Walter Isaacson’s, The Innovators’ this week offers an ideal backdrop for tomorrow’s  discussion of Doug Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect,” a text which in many ways serves as the animating heart of the New Media Seminar syllabus. Isaacson’s saga of the digital revolution — from its origins in the 1840s in the visions […]

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A. Nelson Augmenting Human Intellect, blogging, collaboration, collaborative creativity, creativity, Doug Engelbart, Innovators, New Media Seminar, Walter Isaakson

October 3, 2014

Joining the Mobile Digital Age

Tonight is the last night before I have a smartphone. Tomorrow, I will be getting not only my first smartphone, but my first touchscreen mobile device. I’ve resisted thus far, but the difference between basic phones and smartphones is financially negligible, as far as I’ve found. And I worried about my ability to learn to […]

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jgrun1 f14nms, gedivtf14, New Media

October 2, 2014

What kind of symbiosis?

What kind of symbiosis?

Writing in the late 1950s, Norbert Wiener and J.C. R. Licklider both saw the future of computing as an interdependent relationship between people and computational machines. Wiener, founder of cybernetics, framed the information age as a second industrial revolution. The first  had replaced the energy of humans and animals with that of steam engines. In […]

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A. Nelson human-computer interaction, J.C. R. Licklider, Licklider, New Media Seminar, Norbert Wiener, symbiosis, Wiener

October 2, 2014

Thoughts on Wiener, week 2

After reading Men, Machines, and the World About I had a strange sense of pining. After sitting on that feeling for a few days I think that I’ve identified it as a pining for the world in which complete technology…

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safralin

October 2, 2014

We must value leisure.

Jurassic Park

I propose that unemployment is not a disease, but the natural, healthy functioning of an advanced technological society. – Robert Anton Wilson, the RICH Economy This week’s readings were fascinating in contemplating what the past-futurist’s sense of what we technology could do and also what we should not do. Mankind’s relationship — and work — […]

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Phil Norman

October 2, 2014

14 NMS_03 Icarus Falling

14 NMS_03  Icarus Falling ref:  Norbert Wiener, “Men, Machines, and the World About” J. C. R. Licklider, “Man-Computer Symbiosis” Regarding the two readings, I found…

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jbsstt photographs

October 2, 2014

Stuck on the Jetsons

Stuck on the Jetsons

I spent the last few days at the very enjoyable EdUI conference in Richmond, focused on the work and tools of higher-ed “web” professionals, where the opening speaker was Matt Novack, author of the Paleo-Future blog that studys the history of futurism. Seems fitting to our seminar reading and discussions. Specifically, he brought up the […]

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Phil Norman

October 1, 2014

Where does Humanity Begin?

This is a hackneyed question, but one that bears more investigation: Where do humans end and machines begin? Norbert Wiener engages this question directly, concerning the human control in antiaircraft guns. J.C.R. Licklider, too, confronts this idea, with the very notion of “symbiosis” in computers and humans. But this concern reaches even further, when we […]

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jgrun1 f14nms, New Media

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  • Comment on The Web We Want and the Stories We Tell by CogDog December 13, 2014
    Sirius reflections indeed! what a great weaving between the ideas from the writings in the New Media Reader, especially to connect the desired web with the space/potential of comics. I had some fun this year using the 25 year marker to reflect back and forward on this history. The best find was coming across a […]
    CogDog
  • Comment on Time frames and the web by A. Nelson December 11, 2014
    I love Scott McCloud's Ted Talk! The first time I led the NMS we watched it and I posted about it here:http://siriusreflections.org/2013/12/12/comic-relief/ The link to the Ted Talk is on that post in case people can't view it here (for some reason the video isn't showing up for me now). Also, I'd say that the […]
    A. Nelson
  • Comment on De-Schooling for Connection by A. Nelson December 4, 2014
    Yes indeed: http://connectedlearning.tv/connected-learning-principles It's hyperlinked after that paragraph, but might not be super obvious. I was so struck by the resonances with Illich's ideas.
    A. Nelson
  • Comment on De-Schooling for Connection by Gary Gach December 4, 2014
    Is there an Url or citation for "Principles of Connected Learning" (2014)? Am naturally curious, in general, as well, in particular, as to " ...an initial set of three educational values, three learning principles, and three design principles."”
    Gary Gach
  • Comment on A question for future instructors by Miko December 4, 2014
    I think that my field (learning science and instructional technology) forces me to have an eye on the latest trends in technology. I think in my case, I will keep that habit when teaching courses. It is always important to read and to discover what is ...
    Miko

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