The Garden of Forking Paths and Computer Lib/Dream Machine – Thoughts

The Garden of Forking Paths

As I read this portion of the story, I became more immersed in it. Partly, I think this story achieves this because it narrates the story in such a way that it was easy to identify with the character, he had the desire to share the information with others in order to help those like him. When he reads parts of his ancestors story, you go through his mind as he thinks and converses with Albert and interprets what the reason for the existence of this story is. You get to think as Hsi through the use of narrative as you are placed inside his head and you see how he tries to make sense of what exists in the world and what is being presented to him and you think and feel as he does.

Computer Lib/Dream Machine

I did not get to read the full document but I got a good chunk of it. The idea that when we build pieces of technology we should be building our dreams is very appealing to me. The things we make should be meaningful to us. Seeing the stage in which computers are in today, they have evidently changed to become more friendly and easy to use. It is interesting to me that these designs might have been influenced by the dreams of Ted Nelson and so many others. I share this video which I saw over the Summer about the things we build and the power we should have to create them not to the limits of technicalities but to the limits of our imagination http://vimeo.com/34017777

I'm Alan! currently a Junior in HCI and a not yet defined self-defined major. I've programmed in Python and Java most recently. I have also used processing and a tiny bit of openFrameworks. I am decent in Maya and Photoshop. During the Summer I developed web applications which used PHP, some JavaScript, CSS and MySQL.