The summary for the week ( 12nd, 14th . March)

I studied about the conception of the media on this week. There are two important key points of this week. One is the digital media techonologies connect or separate people and the other is that technologies embody everything what related with us. Also I studied the reading "As We May Think".

Techonologies include all of things what related with us. For example, the ex baseball player in Korea killed three women and then he killed himself. The news can be the political news also can be the part of sports because he was a baseball player. Thus I think that technology is also able to be every part of everything. I saw the creation yesterday which made by a graduate stuendent in global media of soong sil university. There are many guys who play on the traditional musical instruments of the creation and I can hear the sound of the instrument when I touch a musical instrument of the screen. So I think it can be the part of technology and be useful to culture industry.

Connecting or separtating people from the digital media is able to be media. For instance, when a person is in a car, the car separate the person from the outside. Media is started from the crative thinking. So the media is the combination of between reality and imagination. Many of the scientists created lots of inventions that who had not ever thought about.
There are two building blocks of computers. One is switches which is a steering element that can combine multiple signals into a single signal . The other is connectors which is the connecting element must have the ability to branch, so that a single output can feed many inputs.
Vannevar Bush made differential analyzer in 1931 and then the Memex was based on Bush's work during from 1938 to 1940.

How does a man can find the data what he really wants when a man writes numerous things on the papers ? Bush's satated motivation is the method. Bush made the Memex because the way of collecting and of summarizing data is too hard when people have lots of piece of papers for study besides he wants to find the data faster and easier what he exactly need. And Bush was trying to solve the problem which suppose the idea were not enough. And the Memex is helpful to scientist when they keep their own data. Also it helps men,girls,secretaries and calculators. To our surprise, the index which is able to move to move whenever we want is same as the world wide web (www).

I really surprise the intuitive judgement. For example , there is Bell's telephone (actually it was mentioned by Dr.Yoon). No one in England wanted to use the telephone because bellboys were the best communication item at that time but now telephone is the one of the best communication item between me and others. Anyway, the Memex is the beginning of arranging the data and developing the information techonology.