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Media futurologist
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Tickling a touchscreen. Grabbing information. Resettling a human being.
As Gigaom informs, touch screen devices will soon learn new finger movements. We still have so few options for interactions with gadgets, experts complain. (“How to take mobile gestures to the next level: use pitch, yaw and “the claw””, by… Read More ›
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The thirst for response as a fuel for the Internet
Over lunch one day an acquaintance of mine criticized my theory of response. “Not everyone writing on the Internet is doing so in order to get a response,” he said. “Take me, for example – I have a blog about… Read More ›
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The emancipation of authorship is the third emancipation of content (after the inventions of the Phonetic Script and the Printing Press)
How many authors have there been on Earth throughout all of history? No one knows the precise number, though if you really tried to come up with a figure, you’d probably conclude the following: across the entire history of humankind,… Read More ›
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The Chain of Singularities
A futuristic speculation Why deep space exploration will never happen. – Nanotechnologies as medieval alchemy. – The completion of media evolution. – The trial by getting high. – The paradox of self-copying. – Mega-evolution and Singularity-2. …The aim of this… Read More ›
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Review, Precis and Comments Re Andrey Miroshnichenko’s book Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship. By Robert K. Logan
Andrey Miroshnichenko, a media futurist and journalist, trained as a philologist, has written a very important book. I would go even further and say that a new star is born that students of media ecology, communications and digital media need… Read More ›
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Twitterature – enjoying literature in bits
The tweet as a quantum of content. 800 tweets can make up a novel, but not always. You still need a plot and an author. Writing is not an inherent skill. People read aloud back in the Middle Ages, and… Read More ›
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The myth about the Internet as a dump. How filters create a customized “The Daily Me” for everyone.
Sure, in terms of how information appears on the Internet, it could be compared with a rubbish dump. Everything gets in. But far from everything circulates and finds an end-user. In reality, nobody uses rubbish. There are no restrictions on… Read More ›
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I publish, therefore I am. Publishing as a duty
The tools that we believe make our lives easier simultaneously enslave us. The Internet is not just an opportunity, a gift of progress. It is an obligation that contemporaneity imposes upon us. When we go to the depth of the… Read More ›
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Phenomenological Postmetaneopositivism
(Prolegomena to the methodology of unscientific knowledge) 1. There is a reason underlying the expression “what underlies the facts.” Facts serve to cover up the essence of things. . 1.1. Facts take a lot of time without adding much sense…. Read More ›
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Engagement instead of broadcasting. Fast’n’fun instead of long text
The price humankind will pay for the successes of computer technology will turn out to be high. ICT will lead to a change in basic media: print platforms will be replaced by digital. The media change will call for a… Read More ›
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