Thinking critically about digital worlds
Scholars and programmers are two groups that know hardly anything about each other, and yet the world needs them to come together, quickly. Nothing less than the future of art and the existence of literature hangs in the balance, which I’ve tried to make clear to fellow programmers in the past. Today, I want to address fellow scholars and give five critical reasons why the other side needs us and why we need them.
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Product reviews, jibes, diatribes, and tech trends from a perpetual dissenter.
Reading, viewing, and their intersections with the digital world. Explore how computers are becoming art.
History of man, history of computers, and computerish histories. The digital revolution in its historical contexts.
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AMD’s Phenom II X6 has just been released, bringing six-core processing power within reach of students and others without thousands of dollars to spend on Intel’s Core i7 9xx series. But how well does the X6 do with multithreaded open source development? This short review looks into Linux development using GCC and make with AMD’s new processor.
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The world is witnessing an epochal transition from the codex to the computer screen as society’s main information paradigm. Yet the true “digital revolution”, from using computers as information tools to living with them as art and as worlds unto themselves as we do with books, has yet to begin. Before we can do so, we desperately need a new science to deal with digital issues appropriately.
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Yesterday, Google released its highly anticipated Chrome OS, which pledges to revolutionize computing by moving every piece of data, from your personal documents to your applications, from your hard drive to the Web.
To this innovation, I say: “My money goes in a bank but I keep my data on a drive!” Read on to learn about the history behind Google’s strategy and the great perils it poses to the freedom and vitality of computing.
