Summary of last class 2

Wednesday - Friday (03.19- 03.21)

"Hypertext"

Keypoints of this week are: When a medium is new, it is often used to simulate old media.
New media do not replace old media, they displace them. (both of these points are paraphrases of ideas from Marshall McLuhan’s book Understanding Media.)
This week's focus is Hypertext.
Hypertext is One way that digital media has been understood is as new forms of writing, reading and thinking.
The moment I saw it, I stare in wonder.And we learned computing of the 1960s.–standard computer i/o of the 1960s was hollerith cards and paper printouts–standard computer-human interaction of the 1960s was batch processing–Ivan Sutherland’s MIT Dissertation, the Sketchpad system (1963)–MIT Project MAC’s Compatible Time-Sharing System (1961) and later the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (1969)Engelbart invented mouse, windows, e-mail, and the word processor.
Engelbart's narrative strategies is①“graphic vision”/science fiction narrated in the second person②reporting style③personal reflection④speculative voice⑤demo(don’t forget the demo, the strongest rhetoric in new media)
(Comment)
I think his voice is very attractive.I want to attractive voice.If We invent technology, it have to put to practical use.So, We have to power of persuasion.