[Xmca-l] Re: Why Computers Make So Little Difference
Annalisa Aguilar
annalisa@unm.edu
Tue Mar 10 16:36:03 PDT 2015
Seven things I learned from What People Said About Books in 1498, by John H. Lienhard (http://www.uh.edu/engines/indiana.htm):
1. Sharing is a cultural invention, not a technological one. Sharing must be reinvented in each community and in each generation.
2. Caxton was not a cultural snob.
3. Margaret was one cool hipster.
4. Mennochio and I have a few things in common, but I hope to live to be an old woman and not charcoal on a stick.
5. I regret Lienhard's the analysis of Medieval scholars using Myers-Briggs. I wish that rubric would just die.
6. "We cannot have a clue as to what any technological future will be until we learn it from a new generation of users." <-- What he said!!!
7. We can only know what we know when we have an idea what we don't know. Which is why I love what he said about seeking our ignorance. And: "To impose is not to discover." Yeah. That.
Kind regards,
Annalisa
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