Category Archives: media

drexler on nanotech

drexler sums up a lot of big ideas in the foreward to his updated version of “Engines of Creation”. – mass media treat debate as a sport; he doesn’t make explicit the implication that they take out authenticity and blow … Continue reading

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online universities

what can we look for as metrics or goals of traditional college education that we want to aim to capture in new media? Obviously there is transfer of specific ideas represented as text/words – that’s basic and already captured by … Continue reading

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ephemeralization

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13208736 Pianos are being replaced by digital replicas. The lead of this story, though, is that Yamaha has gone to great lengths to get the player’s experience to mimic that of playing an analog grand piano, as well as the … Continue reading

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