I'm sorry, but so? Get over it. Who cares if you can scan it on the computer? Go there and see it yourself. As for urban planning, I really don't see how this is going to help. You only can scan something after you plan it. Whatever. Yet another invention that doesn't actually do the world any good.
Lifelog
This is absolutely retarded. Not only is it a waste of way too much money, but it's pointless. What's the point of filming your entire life? It would take your entire life to watch it all. And the whole "outsourcing mental tasks" thing is just retarded. Why don't we just offload our consciousness onto hard drives now and live as computer minds in a virtual world?
Scott McCloud
Interesting. I might actually be able to use this in one of my interdisciplinary seminars, and I think the only reason I watched the whole thing was because it was a video. If it was a paper, I would have been far less interested.
Marshall McLuhan
I'm actually reading Marshall McLuhan in another class. He's really freaking smart (duh) but I really hated reading his stuff. I'd rather read other people's readings of his stuff. Nutcase!
And I don't want to watch anyone's wake online ever. That's just weird. Specifically not watching that because of the creepiness factor.
Piano Stairs
Fun. I like it. They should find some big staircase with 88 stairs and have a bunch of people play some Brahms.
Erin McKean
I'm amazed it took this long to come up with this. It's really interesting, because I like words a lot, but it doesn't really excite me. It's just another dictionary, like urban dictionary that anyone can modify. So both exciting, but anticlimactic. I really like her presentation though, she's an excellent and very entertaining speaker.
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