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SI 500: Information in Social Systems Week 2: How Did We Get Here? September 17, 2015
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SI 500: Information in Social
Systems
Week 2: How Did We Get Here?September 17, 2015
The Big Picture: How Did We Get Here? 2
How Did We Get Here?
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[Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime,” 1980/2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98AJUj-qxHI]
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How Did We Get Here?
Course logistics deadlines, groups
Revolution and disruption especially embodiment
Selective history same as it ever was?
Materiality of information From hacker tourism to digital forensics
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How Did We Get Here?
Course logistics deadlines, groups
Revolution and disruption especially embodiment
Selective history same as it ever was?
Materiality of information From hacker tourism to digital forensics
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Luciano Floridi – Ethics and ICTOxford University: floridi ki char books. Arctiles iski book k part the.
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http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/about
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Luciano Floridi’s 4th Revolution
“ICTs are forces that change the essence of our world because they create and reengineer whole realities that the user is then enabled to inhabit.” [p. 96]
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1543 copernicus darwin 1859 freud 1910 floridi 2015
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Extending, Augmenting, Re-engineering
Hayler [what is a technology?] Extend, communal, incorporated, domesticated
Englebart [the ultimate demo] [Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer] – inventor of mouse, pioneered idea of remote learning Technology augments human capacities 1968 demo:
http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html
Floridi, etc. [an emergent school of thought] “We are informational organisms (inforgs), mutually
connected and embedded in an informational environment (the infosphere), which we share with other informational agents, both natural and artificial, that also process information logically and autonomously.” (p. 96)
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Disruptive TechnologiesLuddites, reactionaries, street cred
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“Unibomber” Ted Kaczynski, 1996 he mailed bombs to people who believed were leading the 4th revolution like computer scientist and all.
Gil Scott-Heron, 1970 this poster get modified. He said revolution will be live not televised
Gil Scott-Heron explains: http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/explains-revolution-televised.html
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How Did We Get Here?
Course logistics deadlines, groups
Revolution and disruption especially embodiment
Selective history same as it ever was?
Materiality of information From hacker tourism to digital forensics
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Orality Contrasted with Literacy
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ORALITYLITERACY
Exists as Sound ------------------------- Exists as Symbol
Formulaic --------------------------------- Non-formulaic
Social -------------------------------------- SolitarySituational/Subjective ----------------- Ab-
stract/ObjectiveFlexible ------------------------------------ FixedInternalized ------------------------------- Exter-
nalizedLocal Access ----------------------------- Global
AccessRelayer is Alive -------------------------- Relayer
Can be Dead
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Orality IT SHOWS MIGRATION THROUGH ORAL TRADITION.
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Throughout human history orality has been the rule and literacy the exception.
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Differential Distribution of Print
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[http://jalperin.github.io/d3-cartogram/]
If the world were mapped according to how many scientific research papers each country produced. https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-redraw-the-worlds-very-unequal-knowledge-map-44206
WORLD REPRENSTED BASED ON SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHED. You can see africa and south America doesn’t even exist in the world. (this was in 2001
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World Literacy Rates
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Wikipedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_literacy_map_UNHD_2007_2008.png
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Intel’s Technology Metabolism Index
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Jitne red utna jada technological accelerate i.e pace of technology change. Ghana just skipped landlines and had cell phones directly
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz… the roots of binary logic
1679
Symbol as Signal: Telegraphy
Lord George Murray. Visual Telegraph, London to Deal. 1794.
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Charles Babbage
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Ada Lovelace now regarded as first programmer
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Computers before WW2
Computers after WW 2
Computers after WW2
ENIAC (1946/1947)
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Computing – Data Entry - Digitization
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Fr. Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives. This picture shows women entered into entering data rather then the calculations before the WW time://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2013/10/for-ada-lovelace-day-father-busas.html
Corpus THomisticum in formation Google Books in formation
Art of Google Books: http://theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com/
The Internet. 1969.
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Network Effects/Metcalfe’s Law
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[Gordon] Moore’s Law [Intel co-founder]
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Microprocessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law Costs: http://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/cost_of_computing_power_equal_to_an_ipad2/
Density vs.Life Expectancy
The Irony of Modern Media
Years of Use Characters per Square Inch
10,0005,000
1,000 1,000
10050
300100
3015
5
50 50 40 40100
300900
4,80010,000
92,000
51,000,000
Clay TabletPapyrus
IlluminatedGutenberg
The WhaleNewspaper
MicrofilmMicrofiche
TapeDisk
Optical
1
10
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
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Paul Conway, Preservation in the Digital World, 1996
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How Did We Get Here?
Course logistics deadlines, groups
Revolution and disruption especially embodiment
Selective history same as it ever was?
Materiality of information From hacker tourism to digital forensics
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Hacker Tourism: Geohistory Meets ICTExploring Mother Earth Mother Board
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson
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FLAG manhole production site, southern Thailand 7°3.467'N 100°22.489'
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IDC Cable Landing Station, Miura, Japan35°11.535'N 139°36.995'E
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Alexandria Tollbooth, the Desert Road, Sahara Desert, Egypt 30°58.319'N 29°49.531'E
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Porthcurno, Cornwall UK 50.042570, -5.650504
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Mechansims and Forensics
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Representing Meaning in Pattern, Symbol, and Code – or all
Morse Code: E or e =
Cypher: E = “dygzo” (1921 Trade Code)
Numeric: e = 01100101 (ASCII code 101)
.
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Materiality All the Way Down “For the familiar conceit that electronic writing is ephemeral and
evanescent, forensics substitutes evidence that it is remarkably stable and persistent, one of the stickiest forms of inscription we’ve ever devised.”
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Kirschenbaum, “Every Contact Leaves a Trace.” History of Material Texts workshop, University of Pennsylvania, 4/4/2005.
Thank you for your attention!
Paul ConwayAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Michigan School of [email protected]
