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Edwin Pilobello e_pilobello
Fri Apr 18 14:54:11 PDT 2003


Creativity, intelligence, nous ... all well thought of and very
meaningful.  Thanks.

Creativity does have the alliterative ring.  I believe "intelligence" or
"nous" is accurate, but neither sells the idea as well as Alan Kay's
original quote, "Music is not inside the piano."  Perhaps in the next
generation, familiarity with the technology and release of the dynabook
will give "intelligence" or "nous" the nod and smile.

Hopefully, this class that I'm creating might contribute towards that
end.  

:-)  Edwin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-squeakland at squeakland.org
[mailto:owner-squeakland at squeakland.org] On Behalf Of Kim Rose
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:08 AM
To: squeakland at squeakland.org
Subject: RE: Fill in the Blank


Hi, Thom -
Thanks for sharing the article/interview -- it looks *very* interesting!
  -- Kim


At 12:06 AM -0500 6/5/02, thom wrote:
>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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