Monument Time & Space Annihilated: Innovation, Communication and Society Ann DeMarle [email protected]@anndemarle slideshare.net/anndemarle/ Across time and cultures, humans have designed forms and tools with which to communicate within larger governing structures. From the written word to virtual reality, these innovations have redefined our notions of ourselves, the universe, and society. Arguably our digital communication is causing as profound a change as Guttenberg's Press did. This talk will explore past and future communication technologies, the culture that gave birth to them, and possible implications for the future.
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Monument
Time & Space Annihilated: Innovation, Communication
Across time and cultures, humans have designed forms and tools with which to communicate within larger governing structures. From the written word to virtual reality, these innovations have redefined our notions of ourselves, the universe, and society. Arguably our digital communication is causing as profound a change as Guttenberg's Press did. This talk will explore past and future communication technologies, the culture that gave birth to them, and possible implications for the future.
Communication Technology Cultural Narrative, Individual Choice
Communication Technology Cultural Narrative, Individual Choice
Podium Distribution Amplification
Podium Distribution Amplification
Podium Distribution Amplification
Podium Distribution Amplification
1. Cultural Narrative 2. Current Paradigms
Podium Distribution Amplification
1. Cultural Narrative 2. Current Paradigms
Podium Distribution Amplification
Image: Prof saxx , Photography of Lascaux Animal Painting, Feb 2006
““...allowed scientists of all fields to compare their findings with others. Scientific theories started to form on a large scale because more supportive evidence was accessible. In mathematics, a field which relies heavily on uniform systems, mathematicians were able to build upon other works as they became available.””
—Welch, Killeen, Davidson, ”Inventions That Changed History” Ch 1, http://www.scientiareview.org/pdfs/126.pdf
“The surface of the earth will be networked with wire, and every wire will be a nerve. The earth will become a huge animal with 10 million hands, and in every hand a pen to record whatever the directing soul may dictate! No limit can be assigned to the value of the invention.”
—Sydney Morse to his brother—Johanna Neuman: "The Media's Impact on International Affairs, Then and Now,"
“The surface of the earth will be networked with wire, and every wire will be a nerve. The earth will become a huge animal with 10 million hands, and in every hand a pen to record whatever the directing soul may dictate! No limit can be assigned to the value of the invention.”
—Sydney Morse to his brother—Johanna Neuman: "The Media's Impact on International Affairs, Then and Now,"
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas, but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."”
““Just imagine what could have happened if the passing success of the Lyons silk workers' insurrection had been known in all corners of the nation at once!” argued a horrified member of King Louis-Philippe's court.”
—Johanna Neuman: "The Media's Impact on International Affairs, Then and Now,"
-John Blair, “Calvin Coolidge & the Advent of Radio”, VT Historical Society, Vol 44, No. 1, Winter 1976
“He developed talent as a radio speaker. He spoke slowly, used short sentences, discarded unusual words, was direct, forthright and unsophisticated in his utterances. And so over radio, he went straight to the popular heart.”
—William Allen White
Mastering the Media
-John Blair, “Calvin Coolidge & the Advent of Radio”, VT Historical Society, Vol 44, No. 1, Winter 1976
“He developed talent as a radio speaker. He spoke slowly, used short sentences, discarded unusual words, was direct, forthright and unsophisticated in his utterances. And so over radio, he went straight to the popular heart.”
—William Allen White
Mastering the Media
Images: Time Life Pictures/National Archives/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
“The eventual total cost of the commercial was $250,000 - an unheard of price in 1971 for an advertisement.” (approximately $2 million in today’s dollar)
“The eventual total cost of the commercial was $250,000 - an unheard of price in 1971 for an advertisement.” (approximately $2 million in today’s dollar)
“Facebook launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, the iPhone in 2007. By 2008, Twitter had 1M users, and only about 1 of 6 Americans had a smartphone. Today, Twitter has more than 300M users, and 2 of 3 Americans own smartphones.”
—-Jill LaPore, The New Yorker, 8/16, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/did-
• French Ministry of Culture, “Lascaux: Visit the Grotto”, http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/?lng=en
• Marshall McLuhan, “Understanding Media”, 1964
• Elizabeth Eisenstein, “The Printing Press as an Agent of Change”, 1984
• Johanna Neuman, “Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?”, 1996
• Ray Kurzweil, “The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, 2006
• Janet Murray, “Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace”, 1998
• Janet Murray, “Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice”, MIT Press, 2011
• Karen Armstrong, “The Case for God”, 2010
• Jared Diamond, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fate of Human Societies”, 2011
• Piotr Czerski , “We the Web Kids”, 2012
• Ronny Edry, “We Love You”, 2012, http://www.indiegogo.com/israeliran?c=home
• Jill LaPore, “The Party Crashers: Is the new populism about the message or the medium?”, The New Yorker, 02/22/2016
• “How Luther went viral: Social media in the 16th Century”, The Economist, 12/17/11
• Ann DeMarle, “Let Us Entertain You: Entertainment industries propel technologies that engage our seven senses and blur the barriers of work and play”, Computer Magazine, 8/117
• Ann DeMarle, “How do we keep the virtual world from being infected with real world biases?” Philadelphia Enquirer, 10/3/17