Information Age
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Information Age
It was beginning to seem that the same might be true of information systems.
Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage)
From the advent of the web in the mid-1990s, newspaper circulation steadily declined from over 60 million to approximately 40 million (Ahrens, 2009; Newspaper Association of America, 2011).
Rob Mancabelli • Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education
History books are ink on paper. They are linear narratives with beginning and ends. They are stories created from archival documents and from other books. Network culture, not really into that. Network culture differs from literary culture in a great many ways. And step one is that the operating system is an unquestioned given. The first thing you ... See more
Bruce Sterling • Atemporality for the Creative Artist
We’re living in an interesting moment: culture has arguably changed more in the last 30 years than in any three decade span in history. Technology supercharged the pace of social change. The internet and smartphones drove change over the last quarter-century, and AI will drive change over the next quarter-century.