COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alohanet, Rand Corporation, Computer Language
9 Dec 2015
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1: gopnick groups nicholas carr (the shallows), (hamlet"s blackberry), (alone together) Icann manages internet domains together as better-nevers: mizuko ito describes five lessons we can learn from the pokemon franchise. Better-nevers: we would have been better off if the whole thing had never happened, that the world is coming to an end is superior to the one that is taking its place (pessimistic). Today, the new in new media means digital: computers, the internet, video games, social media, etc. , but every medium was a new medium once: The shallows the introduction of writing and how it would affect those with oral traditions and convert them to a literary culture. Mechanical device (gear driven device) to keep track of constellation changes. Arguably 100 years ahead of its time therefore didn"t have the resources to construct it. Took 1900 years to even come back to how gear driven machines could help us do math.
