Saturday, December 1, 2012

New New Media's Prospects




New New Media's Prospects: The Once and Future Tablets


Everything old is new again.”

from All That Jazz




First Writing [Static] Medium
Cuneiform Clay Tablet circa 2500 BCE from Sumeria






Current Writing [Dynamic] Medium
Kindle Fire HD Tablet circa 2012 ACE from the globe



Two New New Media Visionaries that you should follow are Michael Saylor and Paul Levinson.

1. Michael Saylor's book in Kindle e-book format is The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything


*Here is a YouTube video in which Michael Saylor explains his educational vision behind the Saylor Foundation's open-access university courses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DmoYA3oGTU . The free courses themselves can be accessed here www.saylor.org.



Michael Saylor – The Saylor Foundation






*Here is a YouTube video in which Paul Levinson explains his position: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvujlNfSeuA .



Paul Levinson -- New New Media




John Freed, Ph.D
freed@brandman.edu 
Associate Professor of Humanities/Liberal Studies
Brandman University
a member of the Chapman University System





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