书写与权力
Sunday, July 25th, 2004“书写是一种奇怪的发明,给人类的生存条件带来了极重大的改变,而且是智识性质的重大改变。
拥有书写文字以后,大大增加了人类保存知识的能力。书写文字可以说是一种人工记忆,书写文字的发展应该是使人类对自己的过去有更清晰的意识,因此而大大增加人类组织安排目前和未来的能力。”
“书写是一种奇怪的发明,给人类的生存条件带来了极重大的改变,而且是智识性质的重大改变。
拥有书写文字以后,大大增加了人类保存知识的能力。书写文字可以说是一种人工记忆,书写文字的发展应该是使人类对自己的过去有更清晰的意识,因此而大大增加人类组织安排目前和未来的能力。”
There are many interpretations for RSS, this one is from the Essential Blogging
Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a data format that allows computers to exchange files containing summaries of stories. Each story typically has a title, location, and possibly a brief synopsis. RSS is extremely simple, and is expressed using standards-defined Extensible Markup Language (XML). Thousands of blogs and other web sites all over the Net produce RSS files describing their content.
The cool thing about RSS is that it’s easy to write a program to produce or manipulate the data in an RSS document. RSS is so simple to generate and manipulate that hundreds of programmers have written tools to exploit the thousands of RSS feeds on the Internet.
Soon it will be an interactive network. The formation of a hypertext and a meta-language which, for the first time in history, integrate into the same sytem the written, oral, and audio-visual modalities of human communication.
As Postman writes, ” we do not see… reality… as ‘it’ is, but as our languages are. And our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. our metaphors create the content of our culture. ”
You walked to Jack, who was sitting at the side chair during the reception. A drink in hand, he might be just wondering why he came to here this weekend. Then you started talking to each other. Augmented Storytelling is what he told you, and more next day.
In knowledge networks that are formed on the basis of social networks for generating and sharing knowledge, there are two types of components in the system that exhibit autocatalysis, the knowledge per se and the people.
—Monge & Contractor p95
“This land is your land
This land is my land
from California
to the New York islands……”
If you like political cartoons
you should not miss “This Land”