http://clicknoise.net/socialight-and-the-future/ Musings about music, technology, mobility, and culture, by Jean Hebert. Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://clicknoise.net/socialight-and-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Clicknoise » Gadget Reductivism Mon, 29 May 2006 23:33:06 +0000 http://clicknoise.net/socialight-and-the-future/#comment-86 [...] Undoubtedly, some of us will never let go of our books, our vinyl records, our digital cameras, our fax machines, and so on. But the convenience and power of search is difficult to resist, and from the moment we become connected to universal knowledge repositories wherever we go, our world will have changed in a dramatic, fundamental way. Borges’ Labyrinth springs to life. [...] [...] Undoubtedly, some of us will never let go of our books, our vinyl records, our digital cameras, our fax machines, and so on. But the convenience and power of search is difficult to resist, and from the moment we become connected to universal knowledge repositories wherever we go, our world will have changed in a dramatic, fundamental way. Borges’ Labyrinth springs to life. [...]

]]> http://clicknoise.net/socialight-and-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Clicknoise » Mobility, the digital divide, and technologies of cooperation Sun, 21 May 2006 00:42:42 +0000 http://clicknoise.net/socialight-and-the-future/#comment-63 [...] But there is much more work to be done than simply creating some new mobile phone game for tagging public space. There are still basic accessibility and knowledge deficiencies among lower economic classes and in rural spaces that we need to overcome. Here’s a recent article by Paul Lamb that offers some insight into what steps we might take, in the light of his experience in ‘bridging the digital divide’ in the wired 1990s. [...] [...] But there is much more work to be done than simply creating some new mobile phone game for tagging public space. There are still basic accessibility and knowledge deficiencies among lower economic classes and in rural spaces that we need to overcome. Here’s a recent article by Paul Lamb that offers some insight into what steps we might take, in the light of his experience in ‘bridging the digital divide’ in the wired 1990s. [...]

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