In his essay Default Thinking (.pdf), Scott Jenson touches upon what it means to be a futurist (book, or otherwise):
Legacy Vision is the approach we all take when first considering how to use a new technology: it gives us our initial use. This approach is very understandable: we look backwards at what we are doing, our current [...]
I will be guest posting this week over at the Lone Gunman, while Lloyd is wandering the globe. I plan on doing a series on digital culture and publishing over the next few days.
The series in order:
There is something outside of the text.
Social Publishing
Books, Printing, and Self-Publishing
“We have broken your business, now we want your machines.”
Newspaper
Odds [...]
I have the first two pieces on visual rhetoric up over at the Marks and Meaning Blog:
Visual Repetition in The Crisis of Credit Visualized
Visual Allusion in the Obama/Hope Poster