Langage(s) (02/10/2011)
Update/6. Quelques extraits d'un article sur lequel je suis tombée exctement hier, World on Wi-Fire, dans le numéro d'Octobre de Newsweek.
" In view of the extraordinary economic and political instability of recent monts, it's worth asking if the Netlords (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google) are the Four Horsemen of a new kind of information apocalypse."(...) "The whole word is on wi-fire. Computing power has grown exponentially. So has the human network. But the brain of Homo sapiens remains pretty much the same organ that evolved in the heads of African hunter-gatherers 200,000 years ago. And that brain has a tendancy to swing in its mood, from greed to fear and from love to hate. The reality may be that by joining us all together and deluging with data, the Netlords have ushered in a New Age of volatility, in wich our primeval emotions are combined and amplified as never before. We are LinkedIn, but StressedOut..."
Ce soir, la disparition de Steve Jobs, l'un des Netlords, me rappelle que c'est sur un mac intosh que l'on m'avait prêté que j'ai tapé ma Thèse, en '95, et que c'était aussi ma toute première expérience en informatique. Je n'ai pas encore un Ipad ou un Iphone, ça viendra peut-être..
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