Random thoughts at The 19th international conference on learning, London

1. media

2. ”New media brings possibilities

3. ”New media brings possibilities
but problems as well.

4. ”New media brings possibilities
but problems as well.
The trouble is that
it can’t be controlled.”

5. Already Socrates regarded
new media inferior.

6. He saw that his student Plato did it bad
augmenting oral tradition with writing.

7. Media
shrinks
distances,
in time and in space.

8. Lecturer
gives an
example:
telephone

9. Cuneiform first.
Started a civilization.

10. Cuneiform first.
Now internet, and soon
augmented reality.

11. The deity and divinity
of writing:

12. The transference
of
the message
in time
&
in space

13. The magic

14. The magic
of detaching meanings
from their utterer,
making them
autonomous entities

15. The magic
of detaching meanings
from their utterer,
making them
autonomous entities

16. as it got communicated
in London in August
a transformation
of a reception of a plenary
in a conference on learning.