Bruce Sterling has posted the text of (and some images from) his recent ETech talk. Spimes, theory objects, Web 2.0, the problems of labeling, RFIDs, and more. Here's a bit that will likely show up in my talk at the WIDE conference at Michigan State in April (theory objects are articulations):
I entirely agree with Alan Liu that Web 2.0 hype is a lash-up of technologies that is made in a big hurry by catch-as-catch-can hacker types. That might even be considered a virtue. The deeper problem is that language is a lash-up, too. We don't get a red-hot tech lab separate from a cool and contemplative ivory tower where we can make permanent historical judgments. We'd be kind of lucky nowadays just to get "Theory Objects," which are electronic lash-ups of data, ideas and weird riffing. A "Theory Object" is a kind of hack for English majors.
[via Beyond the Beyond]
Posted by johndanseven at March 10, 2006 12:40 PM