Category: citations
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If the map becomes the territory then we will be lost
That which computation sets out to map and model it eventually takes over. Google sets out to index all human knowledge and becomes the source and the arbiter of that knowledge: it became what people think. Facebook set out to map the connections between people – the social graph – and became the platform for…
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Bret Victor, Bruno Latour, the citations that bring them together, and the networks that keep them apart
Occasionally I have the opportunity to give high school students an introduction to research in a university context. During this introduction I show them an example of a ‘scholarly paper’ so they can take in the visual cues that might help them recognize other scholarly papers in their future. After I point out the important…