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Week One:
January 5: Questioning Digitality and Digital Futures
Introduction
Casaleggio Associati, "Prometeus, the New Media Revolution," 2007
See video in links.
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," 1945
Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript to the Societies of Control," 1990
Nicholas Negroponte, "On Digital Growth and Form," 1997
January 5: Questioning Digitality and Digital Futures
Introduction
Casaleggio Associati, "Prometeus, the New Media Revolution," 2007
See video in links.
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," 1945
Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript to the Societies of Control," 1990
Nicholas Negroponte, "On Digital Growth and Form," 1997
posted by Jamie Skye Bianco at
6:46 PM
2 Comments:
I’m hoping it is acceptable to post regarding these readings because I think they raise so many crucial issues for composition. The Prometeus video spoke to the idea of monopolizing through the buying and consolidating of businesses. With this is paired the notion of monopolizing information that is provided. When one company owns all the media (digital or otherwise), that corporation is also controlling the information (and hence the knowledge) of society.
Dr. Bush had prescribed decades ago that information must be organized well and consulted for it to make a difference. One of the amazing things about our online database of records is that it is written by different voices, giving us different perspectives of information. This allows us to synthesize to form our notions of history, among other things. If Prometeus is also predicting a future for our world, then the centralized voice in their fictional year 2050 may limit knowledge. Negroponte touches on this, but he discusses how a digital world decentralizes. My fear of monopolized information has not yet arrived because, as Negroponte explains, no one owns the internet that we use today. It just works.
I found the referral to world and u.s. politics to be interesting because it was an avenue I hadn't thought about. Our ability to negotiate as a planet must be seen as an example of our ability to "control" the internet. As there is no head, no dictator, no one in charge it has to be a type of United Nations regulating or for that matter understanding the functions of the digital world. As the U.S. a country, that Deleuze points out, makes nothing, what type of say should we have considering we have the most at stake in the digital world? Negroponte says that no one's self interest is that of the world as a whole, but if our primary self interest is dependent on the digital perhaps the U.S. should think of the world's interest as our own.
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