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Space Odyssesy 2010 protraits
lack of emotion from humans
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In Is Google Making Up Stupid?, Carr makes his main points, which are:
- we're losing our ability to think deeply and memory
- reading helps to keep/develop these things
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is google making us stupid?
more but less quality knowledge
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what is Carr's view of his world?
it's collapsing because of technology
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what does Carr mean by "the Net's intellectual thic remeins obscure"?
ethic wasn't set up in first place
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exo-cordical
outside of our body
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singularity
wall between human and machine disappear
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examples of biotechnology
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effect of augmentation in evolution
changes evolution
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co-evolution
- helping each other to evolve
- humans and computers
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Casclo (Get Smarter) thinks technology
helps people to participate in more complex things
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Sam Anderson (In Defense of Distraction) thinks technology...
makes us easy to be distracted
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neuroplasticity
brain's ability to adapt changes
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executive function can be divided into (2)
- top-down focus
- bottom-up focus
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bottom-up focus
- you can do it without docusing
- involuntary
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why is learning about attention/distration important?
- learn how to focus
- awareness of our situation
- learn cultural dilemma of relationship between human and technology
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cybernetics
science of communication and automatic coontrol system (machines and organisms)
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cold war was significant in technology because
that was the move from analog to digital
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packet switching
- look at the whole packet that you send, divide it to parts, and puts in back together
- if something goes wrong, there would be alternative paths
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TCIP
transfer control individual protocal
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TCP
- packet switching
- it makes sure everything is put back together
- recognizes IP address
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hypertext and hyperlink
- hypertext is connected by hyperlink
- ability to work with HTML
- all combined are called HTTP
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HTML
hyperlink makeup language
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HTTP
hypertext transfer protocol
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difference between internet and www
- inernet: platform
- www: programming system
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lack of government
is it good/bad?
does anything replace it?
- someone is going to regulate
- activist hackers
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effect of online communication on offline communication
it shrunk offline communication
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bigger and more dangerous technology comes with more...
responsibility
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difference between online and offline identity
- you have to make an effort to have an identity online
- opposite for offline
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benefit and danger of anonymity
- benefit: no bias
- danger: hard to catch criminals, triggers unwanted behavior, uncredibility of online information
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if you don't want to be betrayed, you must...
know what to expect, and they must be met
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different between digital and analog
- analog: not continuous, mimics what it's representing
- digital: everything is in 1 platform, so you can have multiple things in 1 device. fulid
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monism
belief that if you're different, you're wrong
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relativism
believes that different cultures think differently
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pluralism
between monism and relativism
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scope
how many people reach the information how fast
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anonymity
inherent quality of internet makes us hard to trust
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reproducibility
cut and paste is so easy
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Johnson's 3 major terms
- scope
- anonymity
- reproducibility
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Ess's 3 big points
- convergence
- fluidity
- interactivity
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convergence
1 device can have multiple purposes
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interactivity
people contributing and commenting
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ethnographic
- make something strange
- questioning of what we do in our everyday life
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subjectivity
imbedded in cultures
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performativity
- language that actually does something
- ex: marriage
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