TRTR: Pattern Recognition Redux

[Bekah]

I just finished Information: The History, the Theory, The Flood by James Glick.  Super book taking the reader from the drumbeats of African natives and Plato through the Morse code,  information theory (Claude Shannon and Alan Turing etc.), entropy, Maxwell's Demon, the internet and beyond. 

Bekah


On Aug 14, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> when erasing my unerased emails, i saw a heading before it dispappeared
> into the maelstrom re a thread we had on PATTERN RECOGNITiON in 
> The Recognitions....
> 
> I don't remember it much and I hope this, just learned, was not already posted
> so that I bore more than the norm bore I chore you with...........
> 
> From McLuhan's Understanding Media which we KNOW TRP read and which influence
> from just tthe beginning of my reading is rife.....[Byron's conception is surely RIGHT HERE..to follow]
> 
> Anyway, McLuhan says in the age of information overload in which we are--have been---living
> our necessary cultural response is NOT fragmentation (that was the age of mechanization) 
> but inevitably, for survival, practicing Pattern Recognition amongst the flow "just like the Poe
> character in "The Maelstrom"..................................