My posting the other day about DARPA's now-defunct Total Information Awareness project inspired me to rethink a New Media course I've been designing, using the concept of TIA as one of the three themes for the course. The technology that DARPA proposed in its Total Information Awareness program is an example of what Laura Marks… Continue reading Story-Space-Surveillance Triangle
Category: New Media
Synchronicity
Twenty years after the Police's Synchronicity, the word finally seems to have entered everyday language. One of UPS's new slogans, which I just saw on the side of a brown truck in Philadelphia, is now "Synchronizing the World of Commerce." I know what "synchronizing" means, I guess, but what does that slogan mean? Why does… Continue reading Synchronicity