My Reflection On the Class

I feel grateful to have been involved with the Winter 2012 Digital Civilization class. Thanks again, Ariel, for helping to persuade me to take it. Thanks to Professors Burton and Zappala who went above and beyond the requirements of their jobs to answer what they seemed to feel was a higher call of duty. Duty because once you begin to see the principles of openness, feel the legacy of history, and look out on society's landscape you cannot be content sitting on the sidelines of social development. Who knew what could be done when a literature professor teamed up with a computer science professor?

Sometimes this class was at the front of my mind, sometimes it necessarily took it's place on a burner farther back. But I honestly feel like the principles I learned and experiences I had in this class will help shape my entire future.

Privacy Questions and the Fifth Dimension

This post is more of a note to myself than anything else; it's a question that I think has merit but that I haven't significantly developed yet. Is the grip that we are losing on personal privacy (often without concern) related to the urbanization process that society has experienced over the past four centuries? This question led me to a hypothesis about a fifth dimension (seriously).

Event Report (or What I Did To Get People To Come To The Thing)

Here is a report on what I did to invite people to our event. (By the way, congrats everyone on a successful evening!)

I invited a total of five people, though one was my mom.