With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain
Something used against us in internet advertisements
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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relegated to the machine.
I think he'd be interested in learning excel
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digestion and correction
thankful for autocorrect, or at least underliningg <-- in red when I typed it
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two spaced glass eyes
iPhone seven!!!
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and something is bound to come of it.
And now that our species has unlimited information within magic rectangles that live in our pockets, we spend most of our time staring with blank faces at videos and pictures of other people doing things
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Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual.
And here I am, commenting on this article online where other people can see it instantly. Pretty neat
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digitalhumanities.org digitalhumanities.org
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The territory of the digital humanities is currently under negotiation. While there is no doubt that the field is expanding, it is not entirely clear what is included and how the landscape can be understood or structured.
Long negotiation
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ce and the humanities is by no means clear or uncontested.
sounds familiar
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Indeed, this may be outright advice from senior faculty and administrators
Senior faculty resisting change???
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although that perception has changed over time
see movie: Her
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very capable of handling an increasing set of tasks.
it only gets better (worse?)
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third one was planning a short-term project to do an international "slice" of digital humanities for a particular day.
interesting
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digital humanities hardly make up an uncontested or well-defined landscape
To summarize the article
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media archaeology
Interesting to think about all the dead myspace profiles painting a snapshot of the modern life of teens in 2005
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how willing they are to be irrelevant to a larger world,
comforting
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The "still" in "still emerging" seems to indicate that the field has been emerging for some time,[4] and that it has not yet reached a stable form.
Are we any more stable now, here some six years later?
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In a time of paradigm shifts, moral and political treachery, historical amnesia, and psychic and spiritual turmoil, humanistic issues are central — if only funding agencies, media interests, and we humanists ourselves will recognize the momentousness of this era for our discipline and take seriously the need for our intellectual centrality.
But that doesn't get you a lot of likes on Instagram, unfortunately
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peer-to-peer commentary
Like this hypothesis website!
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Over the last five years,
2005-2010, flashing back to myspace and being concerned about my "top friends" list in fifth grade
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