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Invocational Media Why the Digital Computer is
Dead
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Chris Chesher?
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• Digital as a term is obsolete as analogue computers don’t “exist”
• Computers were people on the bottom rung with monotonous jobs
• Modern electronic computers have moved beyond this
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• Ancient idea of magically summoning something after uttering a properly formed command
• For example...
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• Invocational device performs a single function at the users command eg. light switch
• Invocational media combines command and memory and can invoke programmed sequences
• This means more power but at the trade off for less understanding of how commands happen.
• Also leads to avocation: straying from tasks to learn new media devices eg. learning new software.
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• Chris relies on Vygotskiian notion on speech influencing language
• The nature of invocation is inherently broad
• Does replacing the term “computer” with the word “Invocational media” stray that far from Chris’ original criticism?
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Chester, Chris Why the Digital Computer is Dead, 4/4/2002.Accessed via: http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=334
Ales, Mikolas Rabi Loew and Golem, 1899.Accessed via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Golem_and_Loew.jpg
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You’ve been great.