Thinking critically about digital worlds
This blog has often focused on how an incomplete revolution in digital formats has prevented the birth of digital art, but recently I’ve been pondering whether the problem lies in the lack of dramatic narratives in digital media, or in other words directly in the content. Phrased differently, perhaps the right formats surround us, but we’re using them in the wrong ways. The only way to find out is to start writing my thoughts computerally.
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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.
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.
