Exciting Prospect…Together Again!
The air is crisp (actually sort of damp in LA), pumpkins are peeking out at the corner. Autumn is nigh, and soon will come November in Nashville. I’m looking forward to this almost more than Thanksgiving. When you think of it, Tech Matters is a kind of Thanksgiving too. I will never get over the joy of having the Writing Project meld with technology. When things have gotten draggy and droopy here, I think of the summer and it helps renew the spirit.
Next week at UCLA is a special event at The Center for Digital Humanities. Dr. Julian Lombardi from Duke University is coming to introduce Croquet, an Open Source meta-medium. The advance word is that this architecture takes collaboration to a new level. If you know who Alan Kay is, he is a collaborator on this project. Kay was one of the founding geniuses at Xerox Parc in Palo Alto. He’s generally credited with making computer interface user-friendly and more or less like we see it today. I’m going to try to trade sub time with someone so I can make it.
Mary, I thought your CD looked marvelous. The poetry of PowerPoint was so evocative. I know it must have been a rich experience for the participants.
Looking forward to seeing all of you. Time is definitely flying.