1st Homework

2008.03.12 - 03.14

"Welcome to present"

At first class, We make a point to 'connect', 'seperate', 'embody'.
In digital media thchnologies connect or seperate people and they becomes media. And that thchnologies embody many special quality. For knowing about a general idea of 'connect' , 'seperate', we learn about car. A car connect here(place 1) and there(place2) and seperate inside & outside. Also we learn about a general idea of 'switches', 'connectors' that two building blocks of computers.

''As we may think"

Vannevar bush said logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use. And the machines for higher analysis have usually been equation solvers. Ideas are beginning to appear for equation transformers, which will rearrange the relationship expressed by an equation in accordance with strict and rather advanced logic.

So he propose a design machine that has a feature like selection by association. That machine can pick the most important information usefully. He called this machine Memex. It is a simpler form of memory extender.


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