Uh.... what?

Not entirely sure what to make of this...

Is it really a revolution? will it win? and if so, is that a good thing?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FI73MA/ref=pd_sl_aw_manual-1_kindle1_40650458_1



I just don't know what to say. I don't know nearly enough about the product, it is in its first generation and it is supposed to be released in 9 days. The iPod has made a tremendous amount of progress in 5 generations, so I know it can be hard to judge things by the first gen model. But the iPod wasn't trying to replace one of my favorite things in the world, books.

one concern I have is, verifiability. We tend to verify through coherentism, and I know how easy that is too fake. Yes I know I am waxing philosophic, but I feel the further automation of the way we get our information simply facilitates the changing of what that information is. We have already seen how twisted the government can make the news, and how wonderfully deceptive the media can be. While it would be nice for newspapers to be able to fix corrections as they are noticed, rather than print retractions the next day, there is something distinctly unsettling about the idea of reading a news story, and not knowing if it is going to say the same thing the next time you glance at it.

My cog psych studies have shown me how possible it is for them to edit the material you are reading while you are reading it.

you think I am kidding. if you read a paragraph and they change words randomly in the paragraph while you read, unless you are staring STRAIGHT at a word, and paying attention to the word, not just the sentence, you are not likely to notice the change. In fact, the super human limit is something like a word 5 words away from your current focus.

This, unsettles me, but I have the feeling I will not just come to accept it, but come to enjoy it in the future, and I only hope that at that point, I will look back at this, and remember how dangerous it can be.

for those who miss TV-links

http://tvteddy.blogspot.com/2007/10/tv-links-replacements.html

I tend to use alluc, http://stage6.divx.com, www.veoh.com and www.joox.net. but this seems to be a much more comprehensive list.



Enjoy you guys.