Fill in the Blank

thom thom at indiana.edu
Wed Jun 5 01:06:55 PDT 2002


I'd go with 'creativity.' Has a more alliterative ring to it.

	Music is no more in the piano than creativity is in the computer.

A while back I asked folks about new media and literacy. My thoughts
started when I started to look at Squeak and started to think of
possibilities. I actually asked a lot more folks than just folks on
Squeak. I did this for about 3 months and got all sorts of responses. Lots
very interesting and much not too interesting at all. Maybe I phrased the
questions wrong, maybe it just wasn't of interest. I still have all sorts
of stuff but I couldn't find the article in the mess until someone in
Singapore suggested I track down a guy named Mihai Nadin who should have
been in Germany but happened to be at Berkeley at the same time I was
headed to the game developer's conference in San Jose. So, I went up and
talked to Mihai after killed a small grove of trees printing his book which
is now out of print but was completely on the money in terms of new media
& literacy: Civilizations of Illiteracies. Mihai has almost 1000 pages
thinking about the importance of illiteracies ( emphasis on the 'cies'
part ) and the very real problems with literacy as we know it.

A very rough pass at the article which will come out, edited, in Technos
in a few weeks is called 'Ich bin ein Illiterati'

http://www.mime.indiana.edu/mihaiNadin/

for anyone interested.

--Thom

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