hypertext

It is already past a week.
Lecture for last wednesday was canceled.
So this week lectured once.

First, We reviewd lecture of last week.
I thought that summary about last lecture is well.
In last lecture, Imfortant two key points was
1.When technologies connect or separate people, they become media.
2.Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.

Focus of lecture of this week was
Hypertext: One way that digital media has been understood is as new forms of writing, reading and thinking.

Opening question was 'what does “digital media” mean?'
Key point was
•When a medium is new, it is often used to simulate old media.
•New media do not replace old media, they displace them.
–both of these points are paraphrases of ideas from Marshall McLuhan’s book Understanding Media.
We saw video about example 'cut-ups'.
tristan tzara's recipe for composing a poem, William burroughs, david bowie of method of 'Cut-ups'
and we learned about engelbart and ted nelson.
engelbart got inspiration from Vannevar bush('As we maythink') . And then he invented e-mail, mouse, window and the word processor. He saied augmenting human intellect.

I knew about engelbart in this lecture.
I think engelbat is genius.