Since discovering the Internet in 1993 while working for a newspaper in Tokyo, I've spent some time thinking about some new ideas. Few agree with me!
Themes
Since discovering the Internet in 1993 while working for a newspaper in Tokyo, the things I’ve spent the last dozen or so years thinking through, working on, and writing about have varied widely.
I have been a video producer, editor, , author, consultant, sometimes working with people who wanted to create a purely intellectual or aesthetic experience online, sometimes working with people who wanted to use the internet to sell new ideas.
While doing this work, I have always written about whatever interested me at the time: mostly polar cities and climate change, and my new campaign to coin a new word for the kind of reading we do online on a screen as oppoed to reading on paper. I call the new word: screening.
I have pursued these things with no particular goal other than clarifying for myself what it is I think. There is no grand scheme there, no central goal, no master plan. I have never had an agenda.
As I have gathered these writings together and tried to organize them, however, I have been surprised to see that there are things here that organize these writings, not so much by category as by theme.
If I had to describe what I write about, it would be "the future of humankind in the year 2500".
Or maybe: "The need for a new word to define reading on a screen."
I now recognize in my writings an interest in any systems undergoing an influx of new participants.
More than once, new technologies have held out the promise of wider participation by citizens, only to be corralled by a new set of legal or economic realities, and the Internet, which threatens many vested interests all at once, will be no exception.
SEE HERE:
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POLAR CITIES:
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com
YOUTUBE DAN BLOOM: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/your-dot-meet-the-neighbors/?apage
Since discovering the Internet in 1993 while working for a newspaper in Tokyo, the things I’ve spent the last dozen or so years thinking through, working on, and writing about have varied widely.
I have been a video producer, editor, , author, consultant, sometimes working with people who wanted to create a purely intellectual or aesthetic experience online, sometimes working with people who wanted to use the internet to sell new ideas.
While doing this work, I have always written about whatever interested me at the time: mostly polar cities and climate change, and my new campaign to coin a new word for the kind of reading we do online on a screen as oppoed to reading on paper. I call the new word: screening.
I have pursued these things with no particular goal other than clarifying for myself what it is I think. There is no grand scheme there, no central goal, no master plan. I have never had an agenda.
As I have gathered these writings together and tried to organize them, however, I have been surprised to see that there are things here that organize these writings, not so much by category as by theme.
If I had to describe what I write about, it would be "the future of humankind in the year 2500".
Or maybe: "The need for a new word to define reading on a screen."
I now recognize in my writings an interest in any systems undergoing an influx of new participants.
More than once, new technologies have held out the promise of wider participation by citizens, only to be corralled by a new set of legal or economic realities, and the Internet, which threatens many vested interests all at once, will be no exception.
SEE HERE:
--
POLAR CITIES:
http://pcillu101.blogspot.com
YOUTUBE DAN BLOOM: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/your-dot-meet-the-neighbors/?apage
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