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No Time to Think (As We May)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:46:52 GMT

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No Time to Think

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March, 5 2008

Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been paid to Bush's motivation for imagining a new generation of information technologies; it was his hope that more powerful tools, by automating the routine aspects of information processing, would leave researchers and other professionals more time for creative thought. But now, more than sixty years later, it seems clear that the opposite has happened, that the use of the new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less to think, not more. In this talk I will explore how this state of affairs has come about and what we can do about it.

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Man-Computer Symbiosis (by JCR Licklider, 1960)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:47:51 GMT

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Man-Computer Symbiosis

J. C. R. Licklider
IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics,
volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960

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Man-Computer Symbiosis by J C R Licklider (01 Mar 1960)

Article URL: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Licklider.pdf

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Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. ^[1]

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"Man-Computer Symbiosis" is a key speculative paper published in 1960 by psychologist/computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider, which envisions that mutually-interdependent, "living together", tightly-coupled human brains and computing machines would prove to complement each other's strengths to a high degree:

In Licklider's vision, many of the pure artificial intelligence systems envisioned at the time by over-optimistic researchers would prove unnecessary.

Tags: licklider, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, technology, symbiosis, cybernetics, computers

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing, 1950)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:15:11 GMT

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COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE

By A. M. Turing

Turing, A.M. (1950). Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, 59, 433-460.

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

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Alan Turing

is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine. With the Turing test, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence:

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Computing Machinery and Intelligence, written by Alan Turing and published in 1950 in Mind, is a seminal paper on the topic of artificial intelligence in which the concept of what is now known as the Turing test was introduced to a wide audience.

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Alan Turing's papers

full listing

Mechanical Intelligence has everything related to electronic computing and to Artificial Intelligence

Pure Mathematics

Morphogenesis

Mathematical Logic

Tags: turing, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, technology, computing, computers, ai

An Open Universe (by Kevin Kelly, 1994)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:00:57 GMT

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This is the 17th chapter of Kelly's Book "Out of Control", which is also freely & fully available online. See the included links.

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Out of Control

Chapter 17: AN OPEN UNIVERSE

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Out of Control
Table of Contents

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Kelly's most notable book-length publication, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (1994), presents a view on the mechanisms of complex organization. The central theme of the book is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a bee-hive of small simple components. Kelly applies this view to bureaucratic organisations, intelligent computers, and to the human brain.

Lectures

Speculations On The Future Of Science by Kevin Kelly.

The Next Fifty Years of Science by Kevin Kelly.

What Does Technology Want? by Kevin Kelly

The next 5000 days of the Web by Kevin Kelly

Tags: kelly, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, ai, artificial intelligence, technology, media

TechGnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information (by Erik Davis, 1994)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:50:18 GMT

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TechGnosis

Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information

by Erik Davis ( techgnosis.com )

Originally appeared in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberspace, (Duke University Press, 1994), edited by Mark Dery

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Erik Davis (b. 1967 in Redwood City, California) is a North American social historian, cultural critic, essayist and lecturer.

He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era. Although significant aspects of his work include media criticism and technology criticism, his works span across other disciplines to include a larger social history of art, religion, and science, technology, and politics.

He is also a noted Philip K. Dick scholar. His most recently published research has focused on the history of utopian movements in California. He is known for his lively writing style in a number of genres and on varied subjects.

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Tags: davis, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, internet, web, technology, information

The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis (by Marshall McLuhan, 1964)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:40:11 GMT

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This is the 4th chapter of his book "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". The book itself is also freely available (chapters 1-7), see the included links.

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Marshall McLuhan:

4. The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis

Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man

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Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan (complete ebook, 39 pages)

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Engines of Abundance (by Eric Drexler, 1986)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:28:32 GMT

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This is the 4th chapter of Drexler's book "Engines of Creation", also freely & fully available online (see the included links)

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ENGINES OF ABUNDANCE

e-drexler.com

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Engines of Creation

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Engines of Creation is a seminal molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler in 1986.

Engines of Creation is unique for its style and substance. It makes oblique literary references while delving deep into theoretical science.

Engines of Creation 2.0, which includes more recent papers and publications, was published as a free ebook on February 8, 2007.

Engines of Creation download Free Book (pdf)

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Read Online Free

Tags: drexler, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, technology, nanotechnology

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (by Douglas Engelbart, 1962)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:15:27 GMT

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AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT: A Conceptual Framework

By: D. C. Engelbart

October 1962

Abstract

This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improvin the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being. A detailed conceptual framework
explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promise is the computer, when it can be harnessed for direct on-line assistance, integrated with new concepts and methods.

I . INTRODUCTION 1

II. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 8

III EXAMPLES AND DISCUSSION 47

IV RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS 115

V SUMMARY 128

VI CONCLUSIONS 131

REFERENCES 133

This document as PDF File

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Engelbart's philosophy and research agenda is most clearly and directly expressed in the 1962 research report which Engelbart refers to as his 'bible': Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework.

Tags: engelbart, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, internet, web, technology, intelligence

As We May Think (by Vannevar Bush, 1945)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:03:09 GMT

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As We May Think

July 1945 Atlantic Monthly

by Vannevar Bush

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As We May Think is an essay by Vannevar Bush, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945. Bush argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible.

As We May Think predicted many kinds of technology invented after its publication, including hypertext, personal computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, speech recognition, and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia: "Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified."

The system, which he called memex, was described as based on what was thought, at the time, to be the wave of the future: Ultra high resolution microfilm reels, coupled to multiple screen viewers and cameras, by electromechanical controls.

Tags: bush, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, internet, web, technology, computers

Of the Analytical Engine (by Charles Babbage, 1864)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:00:50 GMT

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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

BY
CHARLES BABBAGE

OF THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE

1864

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The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837, but Babbage continued to work on the design until his death in 1871. Because of financial, political, and legal issues, the engine was never actually built. In its logical design the machine was essentially modern, anticipating the first completed general-purpose computers by about 100 years.

Some believe that the technological limitations of the time were a further obstacle to the construction of the machine; others believe that the machine could have been built successfully with the technology of the era if funding and political support had been stronger.

Tags: babbage, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, technology, computers, analytical engine, mathematics

The Machine Stops (by E.M. Forster, 1909)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:57:30 GMT

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THE MACHINE STOPS

by E.M. Forster (1909)

Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it's as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages (email!) and cinematophoes (machines that project visual images).

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The story describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth, and most of the human population lives below ground. Each individual lives in isolation in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted but unpopular and rarely necessary. The entire population communicates through a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine called the speaking apparatus, with which they conduct their only activity, the sharing of ideas and knowledge with each other.

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Tags: forster, cyberspace, history, future, literature, toread, internet, web, technology, machine

The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (Ebook)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:29:04 GMT

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The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors

Introduction: On Not Taking the Hyperlink for Granted
Joseph Turow

Structuring a Marketplace of Attention
James G. Webster

The Hyperlink as Organizing Principle
Alexander Halavais

Hyperlinking and the Forces of “Massification”
Philip M. Napoli

The Hyperlink in Newspapers and Blogs
Lokman Tsui

The Role of Expertise in Navigating Links of Influence
Eszter Hargittai

Google, Links, and Popularity versus Authority
Seth Finkelstein

The Hyperlinked News Organization
Martin Nisenholtz

From Hyperlinks to Hyperties
Marc A. Smith

The Morality of Links
David Weinberger

Linked Geographies: Maps as Mediators of Reality
Stefaan G. Verhulst

Will Peasants Map? Hyperlinks, Map Mashups, and the Future of Information
Jeremy W. Crampton

The Social Hyperlink
Lada A. Adamic

Are Hyperlinks “Weak Ties”?
Markus Prior

What Is the Online Public Sphere Good For?
Matthew Hindman

Tags: ebook, book, internet, web, link, hyperlink, information, society, news,

Selected Essays of Paul Otlet: International organisation and dissemination of knowledge

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:57:46 GMT

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International organisation and dissemination of knowledge : selected essays of Paul Otlet (1990)

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CreatorOtlet, Paul, 1868-1944

Date1990Public Date2007-12-03 19:48:00

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Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:16:15 GMT

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Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines

2004 Robert A. Freitas Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle.

Chapter 1. The Concept of Self-Replicating Machines ..... Local Copy (HTML)

Chapter 2. Classical Theory of Machine Replication ..... Local Copy (HTML)

Chapter 3. Macroscale Kinematic Machine Replicators ..... Local Copy (HTML)

Chapter 4. Microscale and Molecular Kinematic Machine Replicators ..... Local Copy (HTML)

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A Self-Reproducing Interstellar Probe

Robert A. Freitas Jr.

1980.

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Robert Freitas

Tags: freitas, scifi, ebook, literature, science, nasa, space, resource, replication

The Role of Intimacy in the Evolution of Technology

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:02:04 GMT

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The Role of Intimacy in the Evolution of Technology

Alessandro Tomasi

Abstract

In this article, Georges Bataille’s notion of intimacy will be re-interpreted to show that it has a role to play in the evolution of technology. The specifically human form of intimacy can be experienced through the successful adoption of technological devices that have the qualities necessary to fit in and work out in our life context. If they manage to become part of our life, then we experience them as projections of our psychophysical personality, and, as such, they escape our positing, objectifying consciousness. Intimacy can be seen as the organizing principle that shapes the evolution of technology towards an ideal end that promises at least an approximation to the absolute intimacy that is unique to the gods.

Tags: journal, article, evolution, technology, bataille, intimacy, tomasi, psychology