A Year and a Day January 4, 2010
Posted by Eyal Sivan in Defining the Connective, Self.Tags: de kerchove, dichotomistic, evodevo, mcluhan, mea, new year, resolution, subtle technologies
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A year and a day have passed since I published the last post on this blog. That means if you visited here in 2009, it would seem as if nothing has happened with the Connective in the past year. While that’s mostly (and unfortunately) true, some significant things did happen. This post is to bring my dear readers back up to speed.
Fearing Digital Literacy September 8, 2008
Posted by Eyal Sivan in Self.Tags: atlantic, brin, britannica, carr, edge, google, kelly, literacy, mcluhan, new york times, shirky
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The July/August 2008 edition of the Atlantic magazine featured a very provocative cover story. Using the infamous colour scheme of the world’s most popular search engine, the headline asks: Is Google Making Us Stoopid? The article, written by IT pundit Nicholas Carr, argues that yes, in a sense, the Internet is making us stupid. The truth is, he’s just plain scared.
The Message of Television March 17, 2008
Posted by Eyal Sivan in Defining the Connective.Tags: broadcast, mcluhan, medium, message, television, top-down
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Marshall McLuhan based much of his philosophy on the idea that all technology is media, and that all media is an extension of human faculties, as in: the shovel is an extension of the hand, and the car an extension of the foot. The more pervasive a medium is, the more it represents an extension of all of human culture. As media go, television is about as pervasive as it gets.
Kevin Kelly “Really Likes” the Term Connective March 17, 2008
Posted by Eyal Sivan in Defining the Connective.Tags: connective presentation, kelly, mcluhan, negroponte, toffler, wikipedia, wired
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As this is my first post, I feel I should write about how Kevin Kelly, author, pundit and Wired magazine’s first Executive Editor, took some time out of his busy schedule to make this blog.
It all started back in 1993.
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