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Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. […] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And, again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled, and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. |
✖ Via The Washington Post: “Sen. Stevens, the tubes salute you” by Alexandra Petri, August 10th, 2010 Sen. Ted Stevens who died in a plane crash last Monday is known, among other things, for having coined the phrase “a series of tubes” “The internet is a series of tubes!” This was the gaffe heard round the ‘net, igniting a response that spanned every news outlet from Fark to the New York Times. The phrase became a badge of pride. Stevens’s quote showed up on the Colbert Report and the Daily Show. Experts confirmed it. People remixed his speech. The “tubes” even have their own Wikipedia page. Google briefly incorporated them into a program as an easter egg. They took on a life of their own, ensconcing themselves in online lore. The Internet was not a big truck! It was a series of tubes! And it was proud. (more) |
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D’autre part, si l’on considère les grandes révolutions scientifiques comme celle de Galilée et d’Einstein, on peut dire que le discours scientifique vise à proposer des représentations nouvelles du monde et à faire accepter ces représentations par les interlocuteurs. En effet, chercher à construire des représentations qui rendent mieux compte des faits, comme le modèle copernicien par rapport au modèle géocentrique de Ptolémée, ou la relativité générale d’Einstein, puis les faire accepter relève de l’argumentation, et même d’une argumentation très puissante, puisque cela ne va pas sans résistance. Séparer dans ce cas argumentation et démonstration paraît parfaitement illusoire. Vouloir caractériser les discours par une fonction unique paraît donc forcément manichéen. Il y a dans tous les discours scientifiques de l’esthétique, de l’argumentatif, et de l’heuristique. |
✖ Via Jean Charconnet, Analogie et logique naturelle. Une étude des traces linguistiques du raisonnement analogique à travers différent discours [Amazon], éd. Peter Lang, Berne, 2003, p. 33-34. Read also Max Black and Jacques Bouveresse on a similar topic. |
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Lifestreams uses a simple organizational metaphor, a time-ordered stream of documents, to replace conventional files and directories. Stream filters and software agents are used to organize, locate, summarize and monitor incoming information. Lifestreams subsumes many separate desktop applications to accomplish the most common communication, scheduling, and search and retrieval tasks; yet its machine-independent, client-server architecture is open so that users can continue to use the document types, and viewers & editors they are accustomed to.
A lifestream is a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create is stored in your lifestream, as are the documents other people send you. The tail of your stream contains documents from the past, perhaps starting with your electronic birth certificate. Moving away from the tail and toward the present, your stream contains more recent documents such as papers in progress or the latest electronic mail you’ve received—-other documents, such as pictures, correspondence, bills, movies, voice mail and software are stored in between. Moving beyond the present and into the future, the stream contains documents you will need: reminders, your calendar items, and to-do lists. |
✖ Via Lifestreams: An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor by Scott Fertig, Eric Freeman and David Gelernter, 1996 [Full PDF]. More information at the Lifestream Project Home Page. |
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