The New Nothing – Analog/Digital: Opposition or Continuum?

A key note session early on in the Google Digital Academy/ Squared program to set the context of the program in relation to technology and its impact on business, society and human behavior. This session is a vital part of Squared in creating excitement for the opportunities inherent in a digital world.

Transcript

2. THE NEW NOTHING A D – OPPOSITION OR CONTINUUM?
3. WHAT DO YOU THINK…
4. ANALOG
5. ANALOG
6. ANALOG DIGITAL
7. ANALOG DIGITAL
8. ANTON CORBIJN Analog is more beautiful than digital, really, 
 but we go for comfort.
9. SYMBOLS, SOCIAL GROUPS & NUMBERS
10. CHAUVET CAVE ~35.000 BP
11. LASCAUX CAVE ~19.000 BP
13. CORDED WARE ~2800 BP
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15. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 …
16. POWERS OF TEN CHARLES & RAY EAMES HTTP://D.PR/P60Y/1RB7NYDA
18. 1 2 5 10 10
19. 12 1 2 3 6 12
20. SPACE
21. EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY 14TH CENTURY
22. BRACELLI 16TH CENTURY
23. RENÉ DESCARTES ~1677
24. CARL FRIEDRICH GAUß 1854
25. ALBRECHT DÜRER 15TH CENTURY
26. MACHINES
27. G. W. VON LEIBNIZ 1673
28. JACQUES DE VACANSON, 1738 HTTP://D.PR/UQXZ/WFNIHKSG
29. JOSEPH JACQUARD 1801
30. HERMANN HOLLERITH 1890
32. COMPUTER = RECHNER [DT.]
33. ENIAC 1946
34. VGL. WIKIPEDIA Digital (lat. digitus „Finger“) bezeichnet „den Finger betreffend, mit dem Finger“
35. NORBERT WIENER 1949
36. WIKIPEDIA “Wiener defined cybernetics in 1948 as ’the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.’ The word ’cybernetics’ comes from the Greek word κυβερνητική (kyverni ̱tikí ̱ , ’government’), i.e. all that are pertinent to κυβερνώ (kyvernó̱), the latter meaning to ’steer,’ ’navigate’ or ’govern,’ hence κυβέρνησις (kyvérni ̱sis, ’government’) is the government while κυβερνήτης (kyverní ̱ ti ̱s) is the governor or the captain.”
37. WIKIPEDIA “Wiener defined cybernetics in 1948 as ’the scientific study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.’ The word ’cybernetics’ comes from the Greek word κυβερνητική (kyverni ̱tikí ̱ , ’government’), i.e. all that are pertinent to κυβερνώ (kyvernó̱), the latter meaning to ’steer,’ ’navigate’ or ’govern,’ hence κυβέρνησις (kyvérni ̱sis, ’government’) is the government while κυβερνήτης (kyverní ̱ ti ̱s) is the governor or the captain.”
38. MACY CONFERENCE 1953
39. MICHAEL NOLL 1967
40. ^ 1943
43. JCR LICKLIDER 1968
44. APPLE II 1977
46. TIME MAGAZINE COVER 1983
47. ALAN KAY
48. ALAN KAY ”The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” 45
52. IVAN SUTHERLAND
 (SKETCHPAD DEMO) HTTP://D.PR/TZEG/1AWGW5YC
55. ALAN KAY ABOUT THE
 SKETCHPAD DEMO HTTP://D.PR/CD0D/1NJVXIAO
58. MACHINES
 CYBERSPACE & ITS INFLUENCE
59. DEFINITION & INFLUENCES “Cyberspace” is a term created by William Gibson in his fantasy novel Neuromancer to describe the “world” of computers, and the society that gathers around them. Gibson’s fantasy of a world of connected computers has moved into a present reality in the form of the Internet. In cyberspace people are met electronically, without a face or body. As Gibson mentioned some of his influences were excerpts from Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, which first ”made no sense to him at all” or as he said ”like reading messages from Mars”.
60. DEFINITION & INFLUENCES “Cyberspace” is a term created by William Gibson in his fantasy novel Neuromancer to describe the “world” of computers, and the society that gathers around them. Gibson’s fantasy of a world of connected computers has moved into a present reality in the form of the Internet. In cyberspace people are met electronically, without a face or body. As Gibson mentioned some of his influences were excerpts from Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, which first ”made no sense to him at all” or as he said ”like reading messages from Mars”.
61. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 1914, 1997 * †
62. BRION GYSIN, IAN SOMMERVILLE DREAM MACHINE
 HTTP://D.PR/REHX/2HXENBFD
63. TIMOTHY LEARY 1920, 1996 * †
64. TIMOTHY LEARY
 ON THE CYBER WORLD HTTP://D.PR/7ZQM/5TSX35T2
65. PAT CADIGAN (MINDPLAYERS) "One morning in 1979, I was getting ready for work and Gary Numan’s ’Cars’ came on the radio. Afterwards, the DJ said, ’There’s some cyberpunk for you.’ He was making a joke; in 1979, the punk movement was in full flower but the chaotic noise of punk music was starting to evolve into electronic noise."
66. THE EARLY 80S The popularity of the film Bladerunner and William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer accelerated the term cyberpunk. Authors like Cadigan, Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker were only a few of the pioneers which created worlds where humans and computers merge.
67. THE EARLY 80S The popularity of the film Bladerunner and William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer accelerated the term cyberpunk. Authors like Cadigan, Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker were only a few of the pioneers which created worlds where humans and computers merge.
68. THE 1990S Back in the 80s the term cyber was more or less related to the underground. Though in the 1990s more and more people got internet access so that an utopian vision changed towards a “household consumer item“. This led to the creation of terms like ”cyber-bull”, ”cybercommunity”, ”cybergeek”, ”cyberlaw”, ”cyberstalker” as well as ”cybersex” and ”cyberwar”. Shortly… everything turned ”cyber” out of a sudden.
69. THE 1990S Back in the 80s the term cyber was more or less related to the underground. Though in the 1990s more and more people got internet access so that an utopian vision changed towards a “household consumer item“. This led to the creation of terms like ”cyber-bull”, ”cybercommunity”, ”cybergeek”, ”cyberlaw”, ”cyberstalker” as well as ”cybersex” and ”cyberwar”. Shortly… everything turned ”cyber” out of a sudden.
75. MACHINES
 CONTINUUM
76. PHILIP ROSEDALE 2006
79. MARKUS PERSSON NOTCH
80. MINECRAFT HTTP://D.PR/KZ39/4LI495RI
81. GAME OF THRONES
 REBUILT IN MINECRAFT
82. GOOGLE EARTH
83. JOHANNESBURG STADION
 REBUILT IN GOOGLE EARTH
84. MINECRAFT REAL EARTH MAP HTTP://D.PR/QGNE/9F8PZ2GN
87. OCULUS RIFT FIRST TRIP INTO TUSCANY HTTP://D.PR/E19G/SPQF3PW6
88. OUTERRA HTTP://D.PR/CEFE/3X2H37NI
90. CONCLUSION
91. ANALOG DIGITAL
92. ANALOG DIGITAL
93. MAIL@AXELQUACK.DE WWW.AXELQUACK.DE