Last week I was at the Vision 97 ceremony, at which Paul Konrad Liessmann was awarded... I read in the materials that he writes a lot about knowledge and education, so maybe I should read something...
The times when there were polyhistors are gone... they knew a few information about a lot of things. Nowadays we have specialists who know almost everything about almost nothing...
What is better? Or can we even ask if is something better? Either way I still have respect for all people who are such Fachidiots in their field of work and yet they have vast knowledge about almost every science there is... but in my life I met only three of such people.
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
How not to get lost in the knowledge
Allegedly when Roland Barthes died, he had at home aproximately 15 000 index "cards" with different entries about what he was doing and when he was writing his non-fiction books he used these cards...
Looks like really painful-in-the-ass and slow process, but maybe he did not get lost in all that knowledge... nowadays I have a feeling that anything you want to know, you just type it in Google or find it on Wikipedia, but you "forget" it in the second you read it...
Looks like really painful-in-the-ass and slow process, but maybe he did not get lost in all that knowledge... nowadays I have a feeling that anything you want to know, you just type it in Google or find it on Wikipedia, but you "forget" it in the second you read it...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
"Live" not fast enough
Television changed our perception of time in a way, that before TV we were satisfied enough, when we read news day after it happenned.
But internet chnged the situation so much, that sometimes I have a feeling, that even "live" broadcast is not fast enought. Therefore we send press releases to the media "before they actually happen" with embargo e.g. till 8 p.m. Only then when e.g. the winner of the contest is told during the event it can become news right in that second on the internet...
There is a nice example from Czech Republic (back then it was Czechoslovakia), that when one of the high officers of stalinist regime died (before the television), people working on the radio were so afraid of their lifes, that they actually recorded the whole funeral and then they were playing in it on the radio... problem was that the funeral procession was moving quite slowly and the record was much faster... therefore they said two sentences and then there were mute minutes of nothing...
But internet chnged the situation so much, that sometimes I have a feeling, that even "live" broadcast is not fast enought. Therefore we send press releases to the media "before they actually happen" with embargo e.g. till 8 p.m. Only then when e.g. the winner of the contest is told during the event it can become news right in that second on the internet...
There is a nice example from Czech Republic (back then it was Czechoslovakia), that when one of the high officers of stalinist regime died (before the television), people working on the radio were so afraid of their lifes, that they actually recorded the whole funeral and then they were playing in it on the radio... problem was that the funeral procession was moving quite slowly and the record was much faster... therefore they said two sentences and then there were mute minutes of nothing...
Monday, 27 September 2010
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