There’s a lot of great blogging going on in the Intro to New Media Studies class (always room for more, of course), much of it sparked by Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines. We’re moving from Nelson to Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg next Tuesday, but before we go, I thought I’d share a recent response that gladdened this teacher’s heart.

According to Nelson, “we live in media, as fish live in water.” According to my anthropology professor, “we exist in culture like fish in water.” So I guess this means that culture = media. I never thought of this connection before. To me culture always meant customs, vernacular, superstitions, and religion. But never computers or the Internet.

You can read the rest of this fine post at The Jeshire Cat.