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People You Should Know: J.C.R. Licklider

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Every time I teach a class that has anything to do with technology, I begin by making my kids read "Man-Computer Symbiosis" by J.C.R. Licklider. He's not known for building anything. He didn't create computers, software or networks. He didn't make the new, new thing. All he did was conceptualize how ...

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People You Should Know: danah boyd

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

The life of the new media digerati is oftentimes frustrating. New technologies emerge and we immediately flock to them. We devour them, with little thought of the world that other's inhabit. Because we don't necessarily see the Flesh Space (yup, that's one of the names) and Cyberspace as mutually exclusive. ...

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