MachineMachine /stream - tagged with orality http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift http://roychristopher.com/mechanisms-new-media-and-the-forensic-imagination/digging-in-the-gates-the-digital-socratic-shift-roy-christopher Nice. MT @RoyChristopher: > @GreatDismal's 'Agrippa', @mkirschenbaum's 'Mechanisms' and the haunting of the #archives: http://t.co/dUrcY5BM – Matthew Kirschenbaum (mkirschenbaum) http://twitter.com/mkirschenbaum/status/187231717617180672 ]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:26:31 -0700 http://roychristopher.com/mechanisms-new-media-and-the-forensic-imagination/digging-in-the-gates-the-digital-socratic-shift-roy-christopher Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3340 While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the technological, social, behavioural, and neuroscientific impacts that the Internet is having on the practice of reading. A particular focus is given to the reading behaviour of emerging university students, especially within Canada and the United States. A brief overview is provided of the recent transformation of academic libraries into providers of online digital text in addition to printed books and other materials, before looking at research on college students’… ]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:36:26 -0700 http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3340 The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-two.html

Speed is the elegance of thought, which mocks stupidity, heavy and slow. Intelligence thinks and says the unexpected; it moves with the fly, with its flight. A fool is defined by predictability…

But if life is brief, luckily, thought travels as fast as the speed of light. In earlier times philosophers used the metaphor of light to express the clarity of thought; I would like to use it to express not only brilliance and purity but also speed. In this sense we are inventing right now a new Age of Enlightenment…

A lot of… incomprehension… comes simply from this speed.… ]]> Tue, 05 May 2009 07:35:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/the-next-great-discontinuity-part-two.html