COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Edward Tufte, Microsoft Powerpoint, Neal Stephenson
27 Apr 2014
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Cave paintings (cave of forgotten dreams) techniques suggest some sense of art preserved in caves. Famous argument why look at animals? animals have been moved out of the living space of people you see a lot of paintings of animals after they are exterminated. Car and the decline of the literate mind. Last class: technology force assumptions to the users that then have to make sense of it when he wanted to point to the clock we can"t use the clock system we want technology determines our way. Plato- writing is superior carr tells a story about plato: How that city is going to educate the habitants problem with the poets he wants to have advantage. Written in blood the fairy tales we tell kids now have happy endings (pg 55) carr wants to put. Danger or the illusion of the literate mind instead of reading we spend most of our time looking at screens.
