The Banana Peel Project

For an ingenious, entertaining, and fascinating introduction to communication, check out the 1953 short film A Communications Primer. Also, either before or after watching it, read Grand Text Auto’s review.

I talk and write a lot about the ways that technologies we normally associate with their material incarnations are actually analytically indistinct from their cognitive counterparts, but sometimes it seems like I don’t have enough examples.   Let me illustrate with a seemingly silly–but for me deeply revealing–anecdote.
I’ve been doing all of my class reading with […]

If information enables feedback
And feedback enables control
Then lots of information = ?