mBsLOG
Welcome to my weblog. It is an unconventional blog in that I am not planning to post daily or weekly, but only as topics of interest emerge. I enjoyed playing a little with my initials and the word blog and am amused by the fact that it is as much something I am slogging through as something I am blogging about. This listing only shows the five most recent posts.
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I will try to discipline myself to keep a more or less regular set of reflections coming, but I can't promise. I have disabled commenting and discussion as it ended up being more maintainence and cleanup than I cared to deal with. That doesn't mean your comments and thoughts aren't welcome. Should you wish to comment on what I have said, I will be happy to add your comments verbatim so long as they are not spam. Simply send an email to me at Pitt -- see my home page. I will insert it in the appropriate post with attribution if you wish. Please reference the title and date of the post on which you are commenting. Also, if you want to suggest a topic that might be covered or discussed, let me know and I will try to include it.
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Wed, 21 Mar 2007
Technology Beginnings(March 21, 2007)
I have been rereading JCR Licklider's 1960 paper on "Man-computer symbiosis." I am also going to read his 1968 paper on "The computer as communication device" (with Bob Taylor). They are facinating reads and rank up with Bush's "As we may think", Engelbart's "A conceptual framework for the augmentation of man's intellect", Simon's "The sciences of the artificial." I could go on to include several others -- Miller, Zuboff, Kay, Weisser -- but you get the main point. What attracts me to all of these people is the strength and unboundedness of their vision. They all identified significant new oportunities and envisioned what might be -- yes a tribute to Michael Dertouzos's "What will be".
So the question I am left with in all this reading is whether what is developing today leads us to new distant visions? What will the current systems evolve to in 40 years. What vision would we like to drive them? Do we become servants to machines? Do we become irrelevant? Are we freed to move on to another level of development?
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