[Air-L] Your Opinion

[jeremy hunsinger]

hoover dam... good proofreader.... yes, that's not me.
On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:15 PM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:

> True, but there in a 747 we are talking about something a bit more  
> like a complex system of technologies, much like say the hoover damn  
> than the the canonical aristotelian example which is similar  
> though.... it is captaining a ship, which is a complex system, and  
> takes years of mentorship, which is why i later talked about this in  
> terms of that apprenticeship model of knowledge acquisition.
>
> but in the end i was talking about the skills necessary to achieve  
> literacy more than the literacy in this post and the practicing/ 
> development of those skills will likely be performed in a social  
> context as an individual....
>
> probably should also state that i generally mean a bit more than  
> objects when i refer to technology, i tend to mean more than the  
> echnics as the technology, so technology includes is all the social,  
> cultural, ideological, systems that exist within the ecological  
> arena that situates the technology in its performative and other  
> contexts.    that is closer i think to the 'techne' 'logos' meaning  
> of technology than perhaps the more modern object without context.
>
> anyway, i'm still supposed to be writing about knowledge and  
> commodity forms in the information society and am still avoiding it.
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Scott Swigart wrote:
>
>> " what we need for the future, we need people who have the skills
>>> to achieve literacy on their own on any given new technology or old
>>> technology they are confronted with"
>>
>> Not all technology is created equal.  This assumes that the  
>> technology is
>> designed to be usable, discoverable, and intuitive.   Some of the  
>> most
>> academically challenged people figured out how to use their iPhones  
>> just
>> fine.  The designers of the 747, on the other hand, had no  
>> requirement that
>> pilots simply be able to figure it out on their own.
>> d
>
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