As I’m starting to add a bit more stuff to this blog (heads-up: don’t expect to get the lengthy posts here) I thought I’d share those already well-known videos from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology@ Kansas State University.Three reasons why I like those:1) Just a cool cool way to present this not-so-sexy topic. [...]
I work with computers every day of my life. I like them just fine. But there is something about writing on paper -- being forced to organize one's thoughts near-perfectly, and linearly, before committing them to paper -- that is useful. Somehow, I fear we are losing this ability ... losing an intangible skill.
(And, no, I was not able to create the above paragraph in one, single, linear burst -- but I might have been able 30 years ago when I was a newspaper reporter writing on yellow legal pads or typing on a manual typewriter.)