Re: Gutenberg and www

Dear All,

It is said the computer, book, and communication:

"But to communicate is more than to send and to receive. Do two tape
recorders communicate when they play to each other and record from each
other? Not really-not in our sense. We believe that communicators have
to do something nontrivial with the information they send and receive. And
we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we will be able
to interact with the richness of living information—not merely in the
passive
way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as
active participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through
our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our
connection to it.

...

Such a medium is at hand—the programmed digital computer. Its pres-
ence can change the nature and value of communication even more pro-
foundly than did the printing press and the picture tube, for, as we shall
show, a well-programmed computer can provide direct access both to infor-
mational resources and to the processes for making use of the resource",

(Licklider, J.C.R. and R. W. Taylor, "The Computer as  a Communication
Devices, 1968, republished by System Research Center 1990 p. 21-22)


Regard,
Guntur Wiseno Putra

Pada Kamis, 28 Maret 2019, Guntur Wiseno Putra <gsenopu@gmail.com> menulis:

> Dear All,
>
>
> It is from Licklider's consideration on "Ma-Computer Symbiosis" (1960)
> especially on "Memory Hardware Requirements": "books"...
>
> "The first thing to face is that we shall not store all the technical and
> scientific papers in computer memory. We may store the parts that can
> be summarized most succinctly—the quantitative parts and the reference
> citations—but not the whole. Books are among the most beautifully en-
> gineered, and human-engineered, components in existence, and they will
> continue to be functionally important within the context of man-computer
> symbiosis. (Hopefully, the computer will expedite the finding, delivering,
> and returning of books.)"
>
>
> http://memex.org/licklider.pdf
>
> If the books meant by Licklider are records as we find them out now as
> paper-printed and electronical ones...?
>
>
> Regard,
> Guntur Wiseno Putra
>
> Pada Jumat, 22 Maret 2019, Guntur Wiseno Putra <gsenopu@gmail.com>
> menulis:
>
>>
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>> I finded it as one related closely as we may say about "the Internet
>> Web": "Gutenberg and the Internet"
>>
>> Book 1450
>>
>> [image: Printing in 1568]
>>
>> Gutenberg combined known technologies: ink, paper, wine presses, movable
>> type.
>>
>>
>> 1990 The Web
>>
>> Tim Berners-Lee (and Robert Caillau) created the Web at CERN.
>>
>> Like Gutenberg with the printing press, they brought together existing
>> technologies (Hypertext, the internet, MIME types) and created a cohesive
>> whole.
>>
>> The Web is now replacing the book (along with many other things).
>>
>> Telephone directories, encyclopaedias, train timetables, other reference
>> works are already gone. Others will follow.
>>
>> Books (as an artefact) will become a niche market. All information will
>> be internet-based.
>>
>> https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2018/12-01-mediaart/
>>
>>
>> Regard,
>> Guntur Wiseno Putra
>>
>