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Sunday, September 27, 2015
wk7 - LIMA and CARR – TED Talk - connection
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Maps have illustrated the human intellectual maturation for hundreds of years. Carr states that the first maps were as simple as the "scribbles of toddlers." On the same note, Manuel Lima states in his Ted Talk that diagrams of trees has transformed into networks because the world has become more complex. "The technology of the map gave to man a new and more comprehending mind, better able to understand the unseen forces that shape his surroundings and his existence" (41). human knowledge is more complex than a tree; it has become more like a network. Manuel Lima states that networks embody notions of decentralization, interconnection, and interdependence." Carr's theory that maps have grown human minds and allowed them to change their thought processes agrees with the above quote from Lima.
ReplyDeleteMaps, clocks, and trees can be used to illustrate the changes we have over time in technology, language, and the visualization of information. In Nicolas Carr’s book “The Shallows” he explains the process of technological advances we go through. He uses the example of the earliest people scratching maps in the dirt and that led to things such as the compass. Carr states, “Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances- over nature, over time and distance, over one another” (44). In Manuel Lima’s Ted Talk “A Visual History of Human Knowledge” he expresses the shift from basic tree diagrams to complex networks. Lima explains that, “Networks really embody notions of decentralization, of interconnectedness, of interdependence.” Carr would agree with this statement because the advances in the map and the clock has changed the way we think and our brains.
ReplyDeleteManuel Lima discusses in his Ted Talk how classifications of all different topics have shifted over time from tree diagrams to networks. People used trees to classify everything from families to systems of law. Lima says "... trees ultimately became such a powerful visual metaphor because in many ways, they really embody this human desire for order, for for balance, for unity, for symmetry." (2:10) While this "human desire" is still relevant today, mankind has become much more complex and intricate. It's not as easy to sort things so simply anymore. This is where the new visual metaphor, the network, comes in. Instead of a single line from top to bottom of classifications, networks are made up of many interconnected pieces that are overlapping and interwoven. Each part of the network is important and they are all dependent on one another. This transition from very basic to complicated and elaborate ties into Nicholas Carr's argument in the third chapter, Tools of The Mind, of "The Shallows". Carr shows the transition that maps have made throughout history. Maps started as "...primitive, literal renderings of the features of the land we see around us..." (39). This was just fine for the time period, however, as man evolves, so must technology. Carr refers to this process as "intellectual maturation" (40). Just like our visual classification diagrams have become more complex, so did the map. Nowadays, maps are clear, accurate, and extremely precise representations of an area. Carr and Lima both agree on the idea that technology is anything but stagnant. It grows and becomes more of what humans need it to be; it is ever changing.
ReplyDeleteManuel Lima, in his TED Talk “A Visual History of Human Knowledge”, describes how we have taken our previous knowledge of mapping and tree diagrams and used that knowledge to make “networks”. While it would be easier to use a tree diagram for things Lima states “… nowadays we are really facing new complex, intricate challenges that can not be understood by simply employing a simple tree diagram” (2:20). As mankind continues to advance it will become harder to classify and sort things. Lima speaks of a “visual metaphor” called a network, which is interwoven information, everything is relevant and important. In chapter three of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”, he makes a very similar argument that “the technology of the map gave to man a new and more comprehending mind…” (41). Mapping and clocks evolved much like tree diagrams have became networks. Carr and Lima agree that technology will forever change as long as our human knowledge evolves.
ReplyDeleteManual Lima, in his Ted Talk, “A Visual History of Human Knowledge,” and Nicholas Carr, in his book, “The Shallows,” have both respectively studied and expressed their research about how people organize and visualize information. Lima, like admires the brain while he studies it. They both have research minded motive, but at the same time they appreciate what they are studying. For example, Lima explains how he sees the way the brain works as “…really quite striking and fascinating.” Carr focuses his research a little more than just appreciating the way it works to seeing how it drives us towards decisions. For example, Carr states how,” They’re flexible. They change with experience, circumstance, and need” (29). What he’s trying to say is the brain can adjust itself to the person and end up being an influential reason as to why people do things.
ReplyDeleteThe research by both Manuel Lima and Nicholas Carr derives the same result: with an expansion in our spectrum of knowledge, “intellectual technologies” are actually, the tools that help us “organize and visualize information” in a more productive and efficient manner. Lima talks about sorting information in separate branches or ideas of a tree (root thesis) which resembles Carr’s idea of mapping contents in like groups. Carr would also agree with Lima’s claim of technology and networks, specifically, promoting positive interdependence, as he believes that “intellectual technologies” will “extend to the general population established ways of thinking that had been limited to a small, elite group” (45). They will surely agree with the suggestion that these technological advancements- maps, trees, and networks- are changing the way we think and connect with the world and most importantly, with ourselves.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 3 of, “The Shallows” and in “A Visual History of Human Knowledge” both discuss the use of us networking. In “The Shallows”, Carr discuses that we are “mapmakers”. He says, "As we go through this process if intellectual maturation, we are also acting out the entire history of mapmaking." (40). He is saying how over time our minds progress and we get from where we were in the past with dirt and sticks to have a whole world mapped out. In Lima’s speech, he talks about a lot of different kinds of trees, from scientific, to historic, to family trees. Lima shows the networking of maps throughout his video and how they are all so similar. “Networks really embody notions of decentralization, of interconnectedness, of interdependence.” Lima and Carr both show that our generation is improving by the day with the use of networks, maps, and clocks.
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 3 of “The Shallows”, Carr talks about the transition of maps, clocks, and networks. He gives an example of how people use to draw maps in the sand and that created the first compasses. Another scholar who talks about similar things is, Lima’s TED Talk. Lima talks about how we have shifted from basic diagrams to complex networks. Throughout the video it talks about how important trees were and the improvements we have made over the years. Lima explains, “Networks reall embody notions of decentralization, of interconnectedness, of interdependence”. Carr would agree with this statement because he believes the advancements in technology have changed the way we think. Humans have adjusted maps, clocks, and networks over the generations to fit the needs of what is happening in the present day. Carr states, “They’re flexible. They change with experience, circumstance, and need” (29). Carr is talking about the transition of maps throughout history. Lima and Carr both prove to us that the generations are improving networks, maps, and clocks every day.
ReplyDeleteHumanity‘s urge to map what we know has developed the new system of networking our knowledge. In his TED talk, Manuel Lima explains how with this new form of mapping “we can really understand how human knowledge is much more intricate and interdependent, just like a network.” A result of this new understanding is that it causes us to view our world in a completely different way from the knowledge trees ever did. This relates much to Carr’s information in Chapter 3 of “The Shallows, in which he states that the mapping of the world “gave to man a new and more comprehending mind, better able to understand the unseen forces that shape his surroundings and his existence” (41). The mapping of knowledge and the mapping of the world both brought to us new outlooks on the world we live in. Not only that but the developed our mind further towards becoming “more intricate and interdependent” and even “more comprehending.”
ReplyDeleteManual Lima, in “A Visual History of Human Knowledge,” as Nicholas Carr, in, “The Shallows,” have both studies and become experts on communication and modern technology. Both have the utmost respect for humans’ brains and intellectual capacity but choose to dig deeper to study it. Carr chooses to focus on the tools we have designed to help us learn “Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances- over nature, over time and distance, over one another” (44) lima on the other hand just admires the physical brain stating its “really quite striking and fascinating.” The brain however is different in each person therefore it can evolve and change with technology.
ReplyDelete“Every technology is an expression of human will. Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances – over nature, over time and distance, over one another…” Carr writes in “The Shallows”. Carr in “The Shallows” and Lima in his TED talk “A Visual History of Human Knowledge” both discuss the importance of technology and how it has shaped us as humans. It also allows us to learn and discover more about the world around us. Lima quotes Bruce Mau in saying “When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters." Technology is changing us and the world around us.
ReplyDeleteHumans have been mapping what we know for centuries using different techniques like trees, maps, different diagrams, but over time these techniques have developed into this network that we have today. Manuel Lima discusses this shift that has taken place in his TED talk "A visual history of human knowledge" as does Carr in his book "The Shallows". They both believe that this "shift" is taking place in the way we are mapping human knowledge. Lima is a admirer of the new human network or the new way that we have begun to map out things. Carr however never really expresses any feelings. He just discusses the shift and development of how this network has come to be what it is today.
ReplyDeleteIn Manuel Lima's TED Talk, Lima explains how we've shifted from the early stages of mapping and using tree diagrams to networks worldwide. Trees were very important to early humans, for they used them from law making to families. Instead of the interconnected roots, the net has a plethora of connections. Nichols Carr has the same idea in his book, "The Shallows" stating "our intellectual maturation as individuals can be traced through the way we draw pictures, or maps, of our surroundings"(40). Both Lima and Carr agree that we have moved from our "primitive" times into a technologically advanced society. Carr later on states that "in a purely oral culture, thinking is governed by the capacity of human memory" (56), but our mental capacity is shrinking due to data storage on the computer.
ReplyDeleteManuel Lima and Nicholas have relative viewpoints on how the development of technology has affected human beings and there though process within their brains. But both men would agree that technological has affected humans in a certain way sometimes negative and sometimes positive. But in Limas “A Visual History of Human Knowledge” he discusses the importance of networking and not by coincidence so does Nicholas Carr, the importance of the sharing of information is not a negative connotation but something positive that the Internet and technology provide. But is what humans make of such technology that really shines bright within the overall good of the actual purpose of the networking and the sharing of information. So overall it is up to people to use technology to better themselves and progress with technology and learn to us technology and not let technology use them.
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