i'm still obsessed with maxwell's demon, or the concept of a machine that handles the overlap of information and communication chaos, in <i>the crying of lot 49</i>. something about this project attempting to aid <i>synthesis</i> with a machine interface reminds me of that. i am also thinking about the <a href="http://www.ias.unu.edu/news/details.cfm/articleID/300">Sasson book</a> that is one of the many i am part way through. In the introduction she identifies two tiers of information, the raw information (data, facts, stats) and the type of information developed by a locus of talent with some authority. I wonder what the effect of interfaces that attempt to imitate information exchange between humans would be?
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lani - Mon 25 Nov 2002 23:33:05
i'm still obsessed with maxwell's demon, or the concept of a machine that handles the overlap of information and communication chaos, in <i>the crying of lot 49</i>. something about this project attempting to aid <i>synthesis</i> with a machine interface reminds me of that. i am also thinking about the <a href="http://www.ias.unu.edu/news/details.cfm/articleID/300">Sasson book</a> that is one of the many i am part way through. In the introduction she identifies two tiers of information, the raw information (data, facts, stats) and the type of information developed by a locus of talent with some authority. I wonder what the effect of interfaces that attempt to imitate information exchange between humans would be?