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Google Tech Talks March, 5 2008 ABSTRACT Vannevar Bush’s 1945 article, “As We May Reflect,” has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, but, has been paid to Bush’s motivation for imagining a new generation of information technologies; it was his hope that more commanding tools, by automating the routine aspects of information processing, would leave researchers and other professionals more time for creative thought. But now, more than sixty years later, it seems clear that the opposite has happened, that the use of the new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less to reflect, not more. In this talk I will explore how this state of affairs has come about and what we can do about it. Speaker: David M. Levy David Levy earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1979 and a Qualification in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute (London) in 1983. For more than fifteen years he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where his work, described in “Scrolling Forwards: Making Sense of ID in the Digital Age” (Arcade, 2001), centered on exploring the transition from paper and print to digital. All through the year 2005-2006, he was the holder of the Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library of Congress. A professor at the UW Information School since 2000-2001, he has been …

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of the “Shift happens” videos updated for autumn 2009, developed by XPLANE in partnership with The Economist. This Did You Know video focuses on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit mediaconvergence.economist.com and http … xplane did you know the economist media convergence information design graphics visual thinking communication technology internet education facts trivia global rickroll shift …

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