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“Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.”
“The Board schools.”
“Lighthouses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.”
” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes“Delivery systems are simply and only technologies; media are also cultural systems.” — Henry Jenkins, Cultural Convergence
“I learned to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the original” — Reyner Banham, Architecture of Four Ecologies
From Pierre Lévy, Collective Intelligence
“The technicity of technical element is more mobile or detachable than the technicity of an ensemble which is always in situ”.
»Adrain Mackenzie, Transductions. Bodies and Machines at Speed.
Paul Baran’s diagram of a communication networks, from his RAND paper ‘On Distributed Communication’ (1964)
From The View from the Center of the Universe, by Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams
From George Siemens, New structures of learning: The systemic impact of connective knowledge, connectivism, and networked learning
Student Information Literacy Self-Assessment, The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008
Gartner hype cycle
“[t]he uses to which [appliances] are put are civilization, and without the things the uses would be impossible” — John Dewey, Democracy and Education, III, 4