Best Sentence #76
Kuhn describes paradigm shifts as “intellectually violent revolutions” (6). Accordingly, Weiser predicts that a take-no-prisoners approach to overthrowing the current computing regime will be necessary: “This will not be easy; very little of our current systems infrastructure will survive” (“Ubiquitous Computing” [9]).
posted by Jane | 4:36 PM
19 Comments:
Nice idea, and I don't want to be picky -- but isn't that 2 sentences?
I like any "sentence" that is not precluded by the word "life"...
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This is silly. Revolutions tend to 'build on the bones' of the culture/infrastructure/technology/paradigms that they have overthrown. Blogging on HTML, HTML on TCPIP, TCPIP on wire protocols. We are writing using a roman alphabet and living by a roman calendar (how many metric time clocks have you seen lately). To presume that 'very little...will survive' is arrogant and pays no heed to the time and money it took to build that infrastructure in the first place.
"The only truth is the lie, because you know it is not true. That fact is the truth...".
More red wine over here, please!
I am taking 'dissertation' as a doctoral paper, (unless it's different in your country?)
I need some catch up to make it to your level but I wonder if you would share some of your older work? Seems quite interesting.
This statement is false.
very nice idea for a blog! keep up the good work!
Ha ha! This is great. I wish I knew about blogging when I was writing my diss. Does it help you to keep entertained?
niceeee!!!!!
I agree with the guy at the top.
By the way, visit my site if you want. It's not mine but my mate's who wants people to join the forum.
Pretentious, Toi?
This is hilarious! - Such a clever idea for a blog. I love it; brings back memories of the dreaded thesis years . . .
Ahhh, two sentences indeed. Perhaps because blogger was down yesterday?
I like Berkeley!
I don't know what they use in your uni for plagarism, but at my uni they use 'turn it in'. It takes your work (dissertation or what have you) and searches the internet for matching phrases from your work! So if you've published your work on this site, in bits and pieces... I wonder if turn it in would fail you on grounds of plagarism. It happened to a friend of mine, she'd used her own thoughts on a website and used them in a paper and 'turn it in' said she was a plagariser... something to think about.
I like the idea...congratulations on being a Blog of Note!
It has been said that no paradigm is ever changed, the old one's adherents simply die, and with them the "authority" that kept it dominant. Thus science progresses slowly. The on-line world is still fresh and starry-eyed, and its paradigms are still in the formative stages, ill-fitting, and mostly borrowed from other disciplines. So boldly go, and stake your claim.
Hello everyone. I really like the discussion of the paradigm shift claims that has popped up here in the comments. I thought I would point out that in my dissertation, I am not taking a position as to whether science advances cummulatively in a completely linear fashion, or whether it shifts abruptly and changes course in a non-cummulative fashion. The sentence here is simply setting up my observation that the early ubicomp researchers claimed to be part of a paradigm shift; they adopted Kuhn's rhetoric in order to generate excitement about the field, make a more persuasive argument for its urgency, and to attract more researchers. So it's not a discussion of how science progresses, but rather of a particular rhetorical strategy about how science progresses. But I've really enjoyed all the discussion about science & tech progression nevertheless! Thanks.
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