The Secret War Between Uploading and Downloading
Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
Peter Lunenfeld, Central 303.4834 L9629s 2001
The Multnomah County copy has sporadic ink notes from an misanthropic, opinionated idiot
- Skimmed
- xi sibling rivalry: the bomb, television, and the computer (if it mimics its siblings, we'll be worse than ever)
xii (NYC?) neighbor of Marie Winn, author of The Plug In Drug
- Generations
Patriarchs early computer pioneers
Plutocrats business
Aquarians personalized computers
Hustlers desktop commodities (Gates, Jobs)
Hosts Berners-Lee and Torvalds connected the Web
Searchers Google
- p004 downloading like consumption, Television is HFCS of the mind, culture of intellectual diabetics
- p008 cinema's audience richer and more educated and cohering, TV atomizes
- p013 download-only patio potatos vs balanced production and consumption
- p021 mindfulness, info-triage
- p030 deconstruction of prior cultural norms did not lead to new ones, but created a void filled by commercial culture
- p031 political avant-garde techniques morphed into marketing
p034 Unfinish: open to revision by self or (more importantly) others
- p079 Web n.0: continued evolution
- p083 When the mobile ... device is reduced to a portable television or shopping wand, the war between downloading and uploading will be ... lost.
- p084 Jane Jacobs and NYC's Washington Park vs. a Robert Moses expressway, 1961
- p094 Stephen James Joyce throttles access to grandfather's work
p097 vilifies "Market" and "New Economy"
- p106 zombie apocalypse future replaces jet pack modernism
p111 pro bono publica, insist designers choose a better future as their client
- \MaSAI, massively synchronous applications of the imagination
Scenario planning at Shell