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= **Welcome to JMS 492, Fall 2010** =

**Wiki Updates / Deadlines:** WEDNESDAY Nov 17: Wiki Update #6

(note: this lecture corresponds to the excerpt/reading from Steven Johnson)
 * November 10: Material relating to the Interface lecture**

1969 vision of computer 1983 demo of Mac Thought Control

Microsoft Bob demo below (Long video, but worth watching at least a little bit)

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 * October 13: Material Relating to the Web 2.0 Lectures (Positive & Negative Perspectives)**

My Mom's on Facebook SNL Skit

Clay Shirky / TED Talk [|Cellphones & Twitter Make History]

NETWORK excerpt (fear of information overload before the Internet) TV is an Illusion

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**Fox News Jet Pack Story**

Here's a link to a slideshow that I created. I found all this material at the National Archives (outside Washington, D.C.) this past August. Radio Fax Newspapers
 * Sept. 28**

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**Links Relating to Telegraph & Civil War Lecture**  **﻿Cronkite caused the US to lose Vietnam**  CBS News Story / The Cronkite Moment    **Afghan War Diary / Wiki Leaks**  Afghan War Diary    **Taliban Attack In Afghanistan.**  NOTE: I am posting this link ONLY as an illustration of the kinds of video content that are easily available online. **//It is not intended as any kind of political commentary.// If you feel that material might offend you, please do not click the link. Some of the advertisements on this site are also NSFW (Not Safe for Workplace Browsing.) ** Taliban Attack / Propaganda