Interesting set of reflections on the poetry of Ranier Maria Rilke and Doug Engelbart's vision for interactive computing. Gardner Campbell writes, "Engelbart's plea echoes through all the readings we've done this semester... to embrace the challenge of making real school into that 'dynamic discipline that can treat the problem of improving intellectual effectiveness in a total sense.'" Or as Alex Reid says, "Simply put, you cannot keep your non-digital notion of what it means to be an academic and become digital." All fine, and I agree with the points, though my reading of Rilke is a bit different, representing less change and augmentation, and more immersion and becoming.
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