Comments on: Dreaming of Information Addiction

By: Roba

Roba — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:45:46 +0000

Chris, thanks man :) Always appreciate a good book tip!

Mesh, hehe,tayeb itsbetter. At least now understanding is more universal :P I have a font with my handwriting btw, I will send it to you.

By: Mesh

Mesh — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:49:49 +0000

ok “e7em” then it is not as unique as a hand writing :P
lets say remarkable ? i only see handwriting on signatures these days :S

even sticky notes has a widget :S

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:30:58 +0000

I would, but check out his wikipedia page first, they got links to his books and articles with plenty of excerpts and videos.

By: Roba

Roba — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:36:58 +0000

Chris, do you recommen that book? The title is interesting. But you’re write, it’s a great article, even for 2010. It made me smile.

Shahirah, I know, it’s aweful :( Digital to-do lists ae taking over are brain lobes! It’s also really cool :)
But I like your point about communication, I definitely agree with you. it just brings everyone closer together.

Mesh, hehe, I always imagined I’d one day end up with nothing but head and fingers :) I still often doodle by the way, but don’t you dare say that fonts are not unique :P you have no idea what type designers go through to give you these fonts man! :) 7aram 3aleik.

And haha, ana beddi!

By: Mesh

Mesh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:48:51 +0000

this might be interesting too to speed things up

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-chip-brain-implants-control,news-32298.html

By: Mesh

Mesh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:30 +0000

Then be aware; نظرية الاستعمال والاهمال
The more you don’t depend on your memory, the quicker you’ll loose it.
The more Random the Info we Gain, the harder to organize in mind and thus to access, the least accessed information will be ignored (or compressed and dumped some where in the mind lol), specially when they all look alike (fonts) considering that the eye is the human organ with highest information gain, when everything seems alike its harder to memorize..

don’t you recall a word written by you (or a draw) in some notebook you written along time ago, specially if the pen starts to loose ink, or your hand slipped while writing/drawing ?

Those are unique images, fonts are not.

By: Shahirah Elaiza

Shahirah Elaiza — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:43:17 +0000

It’s like you took the words right of my mouth.. I feel the same way about not remembering details and facts I used to be able to re-call with so much more ease in my teens. I’m only 22 but I find it hard to remember to-do lists without my cellphone or the digital post-its on my desktop. IT has revolutionised the way we store data, I just didn’t think it would kind of take over my memory’s capabilities!

When it comes to communication, I agree that the Internet does maintain human social interaction but it doesn’t just stop there. With all these new and different avenues and ways of self-expression popping out every now and then, the way we interact with one another has not only been extended to cyberspace… but the meaning of communication has also expanded. I think people are a lot more open these days and they’re more keen to share personal information about themselves. I mean, here we are blogging about our lives.

Just my 2 cents, I had to write an essay about how the Internet has transformed cities not too long ago so some of the stuff is still fresh in my mind, heyyy.. whaddaya know, I can rely on my brain once in a while =)

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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:47:20 +0000

The world does feel smaller these days, I just wrote a comment (pending) to Kinzi this afternoon about Robert Wright’s good friend Andrew Sullivan. Thanks for the link (not bad for 1993). I read his latest book “The Evolution of God” this summer and visit bloggingheads tv often. And yes, a big FAIL for Neal Stephenson on the classic Roba :) !!