jan 24, 2011 | 05:55 pM | DLD11
The old gothic glass window (church) and the new gothic glass window (television). Every screen, every interface, has its own quality. Remember how they had to change storytelling from books to movie theatres? This is what Dyson showed us, the beginning of television in ’34 and this is multimedia. Every interface has its own quality. When the computer came we made a lot of mistakes by just taking the magazine aesthetics towards the new screen. The last example is the Wunderkammer itself. Martin Roth (who interviewed Corrine Hunt about Potlatch) is the director of the Dresden Wunderkammer. It is not a museum; it is a very fine example of where the king of Saxony made a collection of these incredible things which in those days were really cutting edge, the newest technology. We have Steward Brand here, and it was Steve Jobs who said, Stewards’ The Whole Earth Catalogue was the beginning of Google. The Wunderkammer later became the Museum of Natural Science, and from the Museum of Natural Science it went to the World Exhibition Fair in Paris and from there it went directly into the catalogue because you wanted to buy all the things you could see. This was in ’72 and ’74 and we were all very impressed. We were fans. This was times of The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles and California. This was a wonderful invention. If Hillis was here he would be quite astonished. On the right side you see The Long Now, the famous watch which is running for 10,000 years. On the left side you see another clock out of the Wunderkammer from 1680, and you can see this migration of images, its more or less always the same. I believe a new Wunderkammer is Google – where you type in your query and find everything. When I was finishing the book, the hype about a new Wunderkammer (Facebook) just started.
imagine a I cannot “more important topic than the emergence of imagery, the trend towards imagery, the obsession of imagery.
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David Gelernter | Yale University
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Hubert Burda| DLD Co-Chairman 1
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The Digital Wunderkammer
German journalist Andrian Kreye
Hubert Burda, David Gelernter, Andrian Kreye
http://dld-conference.com/videos/video_aYuetNm.html
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