The ability to search audio and video as easily as we search text means, effectively, the end of any private space.
Apple’s new update which allows users to copy and paste text from photos is true real-time evidence that this statement is true.
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- Feb 2022
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Then we started giving machines eyes and ears — that is, smartphones were invented — and now we’ve provided them brains to decipher and manipulate multimedia.
I appreciate this analogy because it emphasizes the interconnection between humans and technology. There is a use of personification as well as metaphor.
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at the center of the most significant recent American social movement.
Perhaps text, prose, or writing are not as specific as I think them to be in this case. I think of text as Literature, but text is as simple as two words beginning an entire revolution.
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Consider the most compelling digital innovations now emerging: the talking assistants that were the hit of the holidays
The article is mentioning all of these technological innovations, but how does this relate to writing? I feel like the two concepts are separate of one another, but maybe that is just my wishful thinking.
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The defining narrative of our online moment concerns the decline of text, and the exploding reach and power of audio and video.
This reminds me that our generation’s attention spans are very low, and maybe that is why.
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The thing you’re doing now, reading prose on a screen, is going out of fashion.
This takes me by surprise because I definitely did not think that reading on a screen is going out of fashion just yet.
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- Jan 2022
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blogs.baruch.cuny.edu blogs.baruch.cuny.edu
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This course will ask that you think critically about the arguments of others and in turn develop and communicate your own ideas and arguments.
I am excited to work collaboratively, because I think best when I can listen to others ideas as well.
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