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Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada

If you like “As we may think”

Reading Bush’s “As We May Think” made me think of James Burke’s work. (James Burk is the guy from that TV series Connections, and has written a bunch of books and stuff for Scientific American.)

If you are interested in reading about how the development of many technologies are deeply interrelated, check out his book “The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible.”

He’s also working on a project called “Knowledge Web” that seems related to Bush’s writing as well. Here are some links if you’d like to see more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_%28science_historian%29

http://www.k-web.org/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bWxHC_8yBrc

Tue, January 23 2007 » Future Cinema

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