In a conversation the other day someone asked whether the fundamental way people learn has changed. The idea was that constant exposure to multi-tasking, new child rearing philosophies, and the rapid emergence of new technologies … Continue reading
First, a couple of notes from our discussion last week on customize-ability in devices: Motorola is working on producing a modular phone with parts that users can swap out/upgrade themselves depending on what they want … Continue reading
Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg’s piece “Personal Dynamic Media” was, in many ways, a demonstration of how completely visionary ambitions for technology can and have been surpassed by the explosion of technological capabilities in the … Continue reading
To create my blog entries my typical MO to date has been to cull phrases I found provoking, intriguing, or delicious from the reading into a post draft and craft a narrative based on the … Continue reading
Douglas Englebart began his essay “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” (1962) with an explanation of what he meant by the first phrase: By “augmenting human intellect” we mean increasing the capability of a man … Continue reading
I left a long comment over at Lauren’s blog last week on some excellent points she made re: Vannevar Bush. As she observes, his vision in many ways surpasses where we are today…though at least some … Continue reading
This blog is an extension of my participation in the New Media Faculty Seminar (NMFS henceforth) at Virginia Tech where we’ll spend the semester thinking about and discussing, broadly, “Awakening the Digital Imagination”. This seminar … Continue reading