Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Keen On… James Gleick: Why We Are Information (TCTV)

Keen On… James Gleick: Why We Are Information (TCTV)

He basically explains that invention of spoken language, hieroglyphs, the alphabet, printing, typewriters, floppy disks, optical disks, hard disks, solid state drives, etc. are all part of the same progression of increasing the amount of information we can store. Similar analogies can be drawn regarding how information is moved: showing, telling, sending a letter, telegraph, phone call, email, text message, conference call, file sharing, Netflix...

A bit of a new perspective for me. You?

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