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check this out, speaking of:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/jeff-bezos-promotes-the-k_n_169451.html
Maxwell, you bring up an interesting point about human adaptability as an organic firewall to shutting out faceless and lifeless data. The question of course is how powerful this technology is in influencing the chemicals of the mind. After all, dru…
Hey, read Adnan's blog and then this one and published some of my own thoughts in response:
http://cantaraville.ning.com/profiles/blogs/re-erase-the-books
Check it out if you like.
Hey, was going to comment, but it turned into a post of my own:
http://cantaraville.ning.com/profiles/blogs/re-erase-the-books
Interesting concepts you bring up.
This is my response to Adnan's blog post, originally meant as a comment:
In the end, I think information transferal is all abstract. Whether you visually "upload" something from a printed page or a computer screen, or receive a verbal "transmission…
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- At 10:18pm on February 20, 2009,
Cantaraville said…
- Good story, Maxwell! Gary Beck particularly enjoyed it.
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RE: Erase the Books
This is my response to Adnan's blog post, originally meant as a comment:
In the end, I think information transferal is all abstract. Whether you visually "upload" something from a printed page or a computer screen, or receive a verbal "transmission" through your ears, all information is eventually rendered invisible and immaterial. I do not see how there is a qualitative difference between oral, printed, and electronic writing, because in the end what form the delivery takes is inconsequential:… Continue
In the end, I think information transferal is all abstract. Whether you visually "upload" something from a printed page or a computer screen, or receive a verbal "transmission" through your ears, all information is eventually rendered invisible and immaterial. I do not see how there is a qualitative difference between oral, printed, and electronic writing, because in the end what form the delivery takes is inconsequential:… Continue
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