Walter Ong’s book “Orality and Literacy” is a very interesting book. It shows how thinking changes when an oral language becomes a written language. To most of us — at least all those who are reading this — literacy is…
Knowledge Science 5: Orality and Literacy
Knowledge Science 4
‘The Geography of Thought’ is a very readable and thought provoking book by Richard Nisbett. The most compelling message that one gets is that the way thought processes evolved in west and east (mostly Chinese) are not just different; they…
CHI Conference
CHI has developed in directions similar to, but not the same, SigGRPH. There are lots of people, many different types of papers, demos, posters, etc. One really well executed concept here is CHI Madness. At the beginning of the day…
In Florence
Florence, Italy is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the world — and I am here for a few days to attend CHI 2008 (Computer Human Interaction). Since I had a few hours on Sunday before I get…
Knowledge Science 3
One would think that people from every part of the world may think in similar way. I just came across a very interesting book — The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett. This book argues how people from west think…