Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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Linotype Revolution

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s 1884 Linotype machine revolutionised printing by the automation of typesetting. With keyboard inputs, it assembled and cast lines of type, replacing slower manual methods and vastly increasing publishing efficiency. Generative technologies invoke a similarly self-amplifying communications signal regarding an indefinitely extensible logic of engineering the reproductive methods and transmission media of symbolic language.

Tags Artificial Intelligence, communication, generative, information, language, printing, publishing, technology

Philosophy

Academic Publishing is Utterly Broken

Post author By G
Post date Oct 10, 2021
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Context: Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science Complex systems of anything other than trivial complexity tend (and trend) towards a median value of approximation towards optimal system self-replication. These academic and associated publishing systems have become oriented towards the maximally effective and efficient reproduction of the organisational systems themselves and this is, as […]

Tags academic, academic publishing, Complexity, publishing, recursion, Science