The Literate Future
At the conclusion of a short piece on text, literacy and the Internet, Nicholas Carr suggests the following about the digital age: "Writing will survive, but it will survive in a debased form.
A Shallow Argument: Nicholas Carr and the Internet
Among its many errors of logic and argument, Nicholas Carr's book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains suggests that the plasticity of the brain . . .
Digital Culture Notes (1)
Recently, I have been thinking about the material nature of digital culture, perhaps best exemplified by the Web and its intensely spatial nature.
Second Life
In the labyrinth of Cyberspace, an invisible design is at the heart of the system.
Second Life (2)
I posted an earlier piece on Second Life and talked about cyberspace and the metaphoric power of alternate "realities" within the context of communications networks.