Carolina QuotesJay David Bolter
North Carolina · connectedBorn 1951
American academic
- Studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
university teacher, literary critic, computer scientist, journalist
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It makes sense to examine Plato and pottery together in order to understand the Greek world, Descartes and the mechanical clock together in order to understand Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the same way, it makes sense to regard the computer as a technological paradigm for the science, the philosophy, even the art of the coming generation.
The clock has been the center of Western technology since its invention in the Middle Ages. Computer technology too finds it indispensable, although it has changed the clock from a mechanical device to a wholly electronic one.