This week's key points are as follows.
First, When digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media. Secondly, Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.
In ancient times, egg white was medium in art. In other words, egg white played a role connecting powder and wall. Also car is a medium. Car raflects people's class, and separates outside and inside. And “computers” can take many different material forms.
About "As we may think"
Vannevar Bush wrote a article[As we may think]. In this article, he introduced virtual machine. The machine is Memex. The Memex was based on Bush's work during 1938-1940 developing an improved photoelectric microfilm selector. Photoelectric microfilm selector is an electronic retrieval technology pioneered by Emanuel Goldberg. That foresee the Hyperlink. Although Bush failed to finish, his thinking is deeply affected the development of the personal computer.
This class is a bit difficult. But I thought a lot about media, information, etc. And I marveled at Bush's idea. I want to be a creative person.
