Medievalist, Instructor, Digital Teaching Fellow at USF
While there is so much to like in Greenfield’s book, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that my favorite parts were the beginning vignette of a proximate future Paris and the final chapter which present five different potential futures based on Greenfield’s reading of technological changes in society (spelled out in each chapter as the … Read more
Optimism is radical? I recognize that it is deeply uncool to cite TIME at the beginning of this blog, but I’m hopeful that the Guillermo del Toro byline alleviates that a bit. In class the other night, I commented on my discomfort with the ending to Greenfield’s chapter on Automation, that I felt despair (rather … Read more
I’m behind on posting for this week, so I’ve got a couple in a row coming up. First up, I’d like to talk about one aspect of augmented reality that has been on my mind since last week. (This blog is currently doubling as my personal/professional space and as a site for posting about a grad … Read more
IN this week’s readings on the “Internet of Things,” I was fascinated by the implications of the structural assumptions necessary for a connected world. Adam Greenfield uses two specific examples–the first, involving RAND’s assessment of fire department allotments in NYC, drives home the real-world costs of assuming that data is gathered from and organized through a … Read more
So the blog portion of my site has been inactive for a while. Sorry about that. Since that last relaunch post about a year and a half ago, I spent a year as a postdoctoral lecturer at UTK, survived another job market season, and moved to Tampa for a three-year visiting instructor position at USF. … Read more