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My New Mobile Device: HTC Flyer

Life & Notes2011.09.08
My New Mobile Device: HTC Flyer
The smartphone (HTC G7) I bought half a year ago got lost a few days ago, and the Xiaomi phone still hadn’t come out, so I had no choice but to find another way… and that’s how I ended up with this HTC Flyer. I hadn’t originally planned to buy a tablet so early. I was biding my time, waiting for the open-source release of Android 3.X, or for Amazon to make some new move with a tablet or reader, and I was also keeping an eye on Asus’s new models—Asus’s Eeepad sits somewhere between a tablet and a laptop. If my phone had still been around, I would have been…
everyday life knowledge script printing
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2011年9月8日
A Talk on “Copyright” in the Internet Age

AI & the Future of Technology2011.02.08
A Talk on “Copyright” in the Internet Age
VeryCD has been transformed, and its music channel no longer provides download links. Why? Because of “copyright.” Obviously, “copyright” is the most typical concept of the print age. So what is the significance of copyright in the Internet age? I recently added a copyright notice to the new version of my blog, so let me take this opportunity to offer a bit more explanation here. The rise of the Internet and digital technology has made copyright issues increasingly prominent, and the “protection” of copyright increasingly difficult. The copying and dissemination of works has become far more convenient; once a work has been released, it is extremely hard to keep control…
technology media internet history of technology
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2011年2月8日
Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”

AI & the Future of Technology2010.11.15
Media and the Externalization of “Knowledge”
Reply to a netizen’s question: Why did knowledge change from a “virtue” into a “power”? Is it possible to reveal the root of this shift from the perspective of media? This is a great question ~ and it really can be revealed from the perspective of media. Roughly speaking, the media through which knowledge is displayed move from the age of oral speech, to manuscripts, and finally to printed books. In the oral age, the only or main way knowledge could be displayed was through speech; knowledge was displayed in lectures or debates. In such a situation, it is easy to imagine that the display of knowledge was always tied…
culture technology media knowledge
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2010年11月15日
Natural History as a Historiographical Program—Reflections on Liu Huajie’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.11.12
Natural History as a Historiographical Program—Reflections on Liu Huajie’s Lecture
Just after finishing a paper arguing that “natural history” should be translated as 自然史, today happened to be the day when Professor Liu came to speak on natural history and its methods of historiography, so I might as well continue and write a couple more thoughts. Like historiographical programs such as Whig history, intellectual history, and social history, “natural history,” as a program of historiography, is a pun. On the one hand, “scientific natural history” can be read as some kind of “scientific chronicle” or “scientific record.” The feature of natural history lies in its emphasis on classificatory description, but not on temporal narration, especially not on constructing causal chains…
science Liu Huajie historiography Whig history
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2010年11月12日
Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?

Culture & Public Commentary2009.10.16
Has the Development of the Internet Done More Harm Than Good to Literature?
Recently my blog updates have nearly ground to a halt; next time I should make a point of reflecting on that. This time I’ll just casually write down the associations sparked by this title, and try to recover my feel for writing~ This title is one of the debate topics in the freshman cup debate contest that our department’s undergraduates will be taking part in this time, and I, in my role as “adviser,” was also honored to be consulted, so I suppose I should at least give some kind of answer. Seeing this topic, I first thought of a few articles I wrote before. One of them was a…
culture internet pluralism printing
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2009年10月16日