{"id":1394,"date":"2009-12-13T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T09:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:06:21","slug":"the-technium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"The Technium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll take 3:50 of your time to watch this from Kevin Kelly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eeTEcwmfuu4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eeTEcwmfuu4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This interests me on several dimensions: as a <b>mode of presentation<\/b> (obviously, if EVERYthing was in this format it would get old fast&#8230; but it does focus the mind if it&#8217;s novel, and the visual effects do nudge one to hear the message more clearly than if it&#8217;s just spoken, or just straight text), for its <b>content<\/b> (some of his assertions are arguable &#8211;but which ones for <i>you<\/i>? And it&#8217;s short enough to be an effective stimulus material for teaching, a good model), for its <b>potential remixability<\/b> (wouldn&#8217;t it be FUN to have a class pick out particular segments to expand upon, annotate, produce new remixes of? What&#8217;s the technology package necessary to do that?)<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/12\/what_technology_dont_you_use.html\">Phillip Torrone<\/a>, who chooses the last 30 seconds for his focused attention&#8230; but I view it in the context of my current reading of Stewart Brand&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Whole-Earth-Discipline-Ecopragmatist-Manifesto\/dp\/0670021210\"><b>Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto<\/b><\/a>, about which I&#8217;ll have stuff to write real soon now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll take 3:50 of your time to watch this from Kevin Kelly: This interests me on several dimensions: as a mode of presentation (obviously, if EVERYthing was in this format it would get old fast&#8230; but it does focus the mind if it&#8217;s novel, and the visual effects do nudge one to hear the message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}