The Medium is the Message

This blog post is for the lecture on September 26th, 2019.   The revolutionary idea of hypertext brings me back to a blog post a few posts back: the idea that older generations have a linear train of thought and the newer generations have almost a “multi-tasking” manner of analysis. I believe the examples I […]

This blog post is for the lecture on September 24th, 2018.   I can understand much better now why Claude Shannon would venture into the electronic mouse game. By the way it was originally explained, it seemed as though he was just “piddling around” and playing with machines for fun. However, the relay system he […]

This blog post pertains to the lecture on September 19th, 2018. The first notes I would like to make are on the required reading “A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age” by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman. For starters, the introduction was puffing (slight exaggerations or white lies in order to […]

I’ve been thinking a little bit more about why the younger generations like “stagnant” music. Now, I haven’t listened to a great deal of older music where the volume varies greatly, so if I am wrong please correct me.   I think it has to do, at least in part, with the new additions the […]

Ok, so I can officially say: I’m an established idealist. I think there is one ideal, and nobody reading this (including me) will ever be able to reach it or even fathom it. To be fair, I was an idealist long before I was religious so I can’t even attribute my ideas to religion. My […]

First, allow me to explain the reason this blog was created (for those visitors that are not my history professor). This blog is a creative expression of my personal thoughts and comments on lecture material gone over in a digital history class that I attend during the week. Therefore, all thoughts expressed in this blog […]