Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture 7: MIT 2000 Lecture 7
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Mit 2000 the history of communication : lecture 7. The question of sakhalin/the journey of la perouse. Do not transmit messages through space or time (cid:12254) (cid:12254) The coordination of people, things, and information in relations to various facilities (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Organize time and space (and thus makes sense out of these concepts) Establish the basic coordinates of time and space (peters, 16) Arrange people and property into time and space (peters, 16) Important to know where something is in the supply chain. Purpose: to get commodities to the right place at the right time. It is a point of reference and of orientation (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Won"t get lost if you can see it. Makes sense of space in terms of meters, kilometers, miles etc. Ex) london is 200km from detroit, cleveland, buffalo and toronto. Canada is in north america and to the north and east of the us.