Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture 10: MIT 2000 Lecture 10
13 Dec 2017
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Mit 2000 the history of communication : lecture 10. Computers and fiber optic cables unite all past and different media into one. (cid:12254) All messages (text, image and sound) are pure quantities of digital data. Speech, writing, and printing, the postal system and the telegraph, sound recording, photography and film logistical media like maps, schedules, calendars, clocks. (cid:12254) The computer unites all these various media into the meta-medium of the computer (manovich) The optical, acoustic and symbolic data streams are subsumed into a singular data stream of binary code (0s and 1s/voltage differences). (cid:12254) The computer represents the end of media (kittler) The computer reunites data streams into one (speech, writing, logical media, etc) medium. Unites them into a super system that relies on digitalization (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Back to monopoly of the symbolic, the symbolic of 0 and 1 (cid:12254) Everything is turned back into writing, not writing by humans, but writing by machines.
