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From Pierre Lévy, Collective Intelligence

Transductions

• technicity
• technical elements
• technical ensembles
• originary technicity
• ontogenesis vs ontology

“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.

Gartner hype cycle

Network warfare

“Today, new systems are being fielded to allow soldiers to enter data on the spot—even during battle.

These technologies are wonders, but generally they have not been accompanied by shifts in military doctrine and organization. The result: a tidal wave of data is being created that can swamp systems still organized around large units (such as army divisions, naval strike groups, or air force wings) whose goal is to apply “overwhelming force” at some mythical “decisive point.” Generally speaking, these large units cannot quickly disseminate the information they collect throughout their networks and then allow smaller constituent parts to swarm against insurgents.”

Full article by John Arquilla in Technology Review March/April 2008, p. 12

The viewer’s cut

“Watch Late Fragment straight through and you won’t really understand why a young woman kills her doting father. Take control of the film, unlocking hidden footage and shuffling scenes around, and you learn that Dad may dote a little too much. Because the truth is, our perception of stories and characters shifts as we learn more about them. On this filmfest-and-DVD-only feature from a trio of Canadians, you delve deeper by using your remote: Click at the beginning of a scene and you’ll be taken somewhere totally different than if you do so at the end. Any given viewing might weave 90 or so of the 139 available scenes into a Pulp Fiction-like circular story arc.”

Full article by Sonja Zjawinski in Wired magazine

“the classroom is the only place where learners disconnect”

source: Equipping every learner for the 21st century (pdf)

Google wave

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

The machine and Nietzsche

But the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche’s friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. “Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom,” the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his “‘thoughts’ in music and language often depend on the quality of pen and paper.”

“You are right,” Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler , Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”

from Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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