== 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 "'''M'''arket" and "'''N'''ew '''E'''conomy" .p106 zombie apocalypse future replaces jet pack modernism .p111 ''pro bono publica'', insist designers choose a better future as their client .[[ https://web.archive.org/web/20111231005428/http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/lunenfeld.html | bespoke futures ]] . \MaSAI, massively synchronous applications of the imagination . Scenario planning at [[ https://hbr.org/1985/09/scenarios-uncharted-waters-ahead | Shell ]]