S15 Awakening the Digital Imagination
New Media Seminar for Virginia Tech faculty, staff and graduate students
This series of short interviews with technological leaders in 2008 is illuminating. Their predictions for the development of technology over the next 10 years echo many of the “far-fetched” predictions by the authors we have read in the New Media Seminar. Big data: The next Google : Nature News.
This WIRED article resonated with the New Media Seminar I’m taking at Virginia Tech. Big Data: One Thing to Think About When Buying Your Apple Watch | WIRED. I hadn’t heard of the term ephemeralization coined by Buckminster Fuller before, which is the promise of technology to do “more and more with less and less until eventually […]
Reading: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing. Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 59(236):433-360. October 1950. (one reprint is here by a quick Google search). Computer scientist majors will learn about the famous Turing Machine in any introductory Theory of Computation class. They might get a cursory mention of the “Imitation Game,” the subject of […]
This is the first post for a New Media Seminar that I am participating in at Virginia Tech. The main site for this seminar includes comments on weekly readings. Seminar Twitter Hashtag: #vtnmss15. Reading: “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108. (July 1945). Many of the passages in Vannevar Bush’s article As We […]
