Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Darpa, Mark Weiser, Packet Switching

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The environment that man creates becomes his medium for b. defining his role in it. February 26, 2014 lecture mcluhan, alan kay. Doing with images makes symbols : premise behind the gui, enabled computers users to formulate ideas in real time by manipulating icons on the computer screen, gui, new approach to interactive computing, graphical user interface, alan kay. Navigating information space via the mouse in computing d: most crucial advancement of human-computer interactivity f. Themes: massage, age of anxiety yesterday"s concepts, media as an extension physical, electric circuitry, result of trying to do today"s job with yesterday"s tools-with, all media are extensions of some human faculty psychic or a. b. Pours upon us instantly and continuously the concerns of other men . Ditto device : emphasizes that through electronic media, distances cease to be a, global village, authorship b. a. barrier to communication.

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