Memo22+--+Long+Annotations+Cont.

Thomas Solley STSH 4980-01 Senior Thesis Costelloe-Kuehn 10/5/2014

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__ Memo 22 -- Long Annotations, __ Cont. "For this round of long annotations, we'll be getting a bit more structured, using "

>>> December 18, 2008) >>> Routledge, 1982), 12. >> What is the main argument of the text? >> Describe at least three ways that the main argument is supported. >> Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing. >> List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing.
 * 1) "Beyond Literacy: Are Reading and Writing Doomed?"
 * 2) Quotes
 * 3) "It is difficult to escape the perspectives imposed on us by literacy" (p1)
 * 4) "Television, movies, video games, cell phones and, more recently, the Internet have all been identified as the culprits that rot the brain, desensitize, delude and generally ruin the minds of the young. At the core of much of this concern is the perceived decline of literacy. The media and popular press point clearly to these technologies as the cause of this decline but also, ironically, as the source of the “new literacy.”" (p3)
 * 5) "Literacy is hard won, elitist, and ultimately inadequate for the challenges ahead" (p4)
 * 6) Main argument
 * 7) The transition from paper to digital media -- to a "postliterate" future -- holds the promise of greater information-sharing and connectivity for humans, while allowing for the intensive practice of learning/using written media to fall into disuse. Human history holds that humans will evolve to use the easiest means required to accomplish their goals; as current practices of writing and communication ("literacy") are very difficult to learn or master, they shall likely fall away in lieu of a more convenient technology. However, paper-literacy will likely never become truly extinct due to the historical value it has in society.
 * 8) 3 ways that main argument is supported
 * 9) Author gives an overview of student reactions to the main arguments, while teaching on the subject of Post Literacy.
 * 10) Alternatives to "literacy" are provided (some harken to the Transhumanist Declaration, most are merely sci-fi) -- all demonstrate that visible, printed words are not necessarily required for communication.
 * 11) Historical overview of the evolution of literacy
 * 12) Main literatures used
 * 13) Raymond Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near (New York: Viking Press, 2005), 9
 * 14) Beyond Literacy, http://www.uoguelph.ca/~mridley/UNIV1200.htm (accessed
 * 1) Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: the Technologizing of the Word (London:
 * 1) How text evidence relates to the arguemnt I see
 * 2) ... Use of Kurzwheil's AI seems to uphold my theory on the trend towards a "networked" society.
 * 3) Technological advancement is expected to continue in the future of mankind -- if not integral to our evolution as a species, then as a direct "marker"/result.
 * 4) Technological innovation into "post literacy" is to improve fundamental communication, a goal shared by other "alternatives" mentioned in the paper -- including that of an uploaded-consciousness resembling a "hive mind".
 * 5) 3 details/examples from text to support my argument
 * 6) "The power of integrated intelligence is the promise of the hive mind" (p.6)
 * 7) "What is known to a part is known to the whole. Like telepathy, it provides an intellectual intimacy of unimaginable proportions. Of course, the price of this capacity is significant: it is the end of the individual, the end of our concept of the self" (p.6)
 * 8) "Will our allegiance to our own individuality (arguably an artifact of literacy) be so strong that we will deny ourselves the superior understanding and knowledge accessible by succumbing to the Borg?" (p.6)
 * 9) "Human Immortality Versus Expendability"
 * 10) What three quotes capture the critical import of the text?
 * 1) Describe the main literatures that the text drawson and contributes to.
 * 1) Describe the main literatures that the text drawson and contributes to.
 * 1) "In the Machine We Trust"
 * 2) What three quotes capture the critical import of the text?
 * 3) What is the main argument of the text?
 * 4) Describe at least three ways that the main argument is supported.
 * 5) Describe the main literatures that the text drawson and contributes to.
 * 6) Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing.
 * 7) List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing.
 * 8) "The Age of Diamond Age"
 * 9) What three quotes capture the critical import of the text?
 * 10) What is the main argument of the text?
 * 11) Describe at least three ways that the main argument is supported.
 * 12) Describe the main literatures that the text drawson and contributes to.
 * 13) Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing.
 * 14) List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing.
 * 1) "The Age of Diamond Age"
 * 2) What three quotes capture the critical import of the text?
 * 3) What is the main argument of the text?
 * 4) Describe at least three ways that the main argument is supported.
 * 5) Describe the main literatures that the text drawson and contributes to.
 * 6) Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing.
 * 7) List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing.
 * 1) Describe the main literatures that the text drawson and contributes to.
 * 2) Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing.
 * 3) List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing.
 * 1) List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing.
 * 1) List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing.

__ Concerns __ ... In addition to the types of comments we make in the Short Annotations, we need to follow this new one too. More content is better.

Probably better to pursue this after having generated new Content for Zotero?