A long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken Ralph Baer from vacuum tube through microprocessor designs.
Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
GAMBIT Communications Director on James Bond gadgets
GAMBIT Geoffrey’s Long: “It’s become incredibly difficult for sci-fi to keep coming up with mind-blowing yet somewhat feasible new gizmos and gadgets.”
Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton on the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his vision of how new and old media can reinforce each other.
Podcast and video: Robert Darnton, “Books and Libraries in the Digital Age”
Robert Darnton, director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, discusses the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other, strengthening and transforming the world of learning.
The Business of Broadband and the Public Interest: Media Policy for the Network Society
Media policy in the United States has, since its inception, been governed by the principle that infrastructure providers should serve “the public interest.”
Benjamin Mako Hill at the 10th annual Open Source Conference
Benjamin Mako Hill from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media presented on the ways that errors in everyday technology can present opportunities for encouraging the right kind of thinking.
