This Episode explores some of the cognitive impacts on individuals that have taken place as a result of development of technologies for transforming and transferring human knowledge from our personal World 2's, to and from "objective" knowledge in World 3. Where print media are concerned, the technologies primarily extend our memory capacity. When the knowledge becomes virtual in electronic or other intangible media, some very interesting things have begun to happen that may radically change what it means to be human.
Word processing (extending the paradigm of paper)
Calculators and spreadsheets (extending the paradigm of a paper spreadsheet)
Databases (extending the tabular paradigm to more than two dimensions)
Paper Paradigms and Microsoft's Waning Dominance of Personal Computing
Structured Authoring Adds Computer Readable Syntax and Semantics to Text
Typesetting Markup
Structural and Semantic Markup (Enabling the Structural Paradigm)
Books, Journals and Libraries
Library Catalogs Helped Individuals Find Books
Disseminating, Indexing and Retrieving Scholarly, Scientific and Technical Knowledge
Computerising and Moving the Indexes On-Line
Indexing and Semantic Retrieval
The increasing cost of publishing and the limitations of libraries
Web Origins and History
Vannevar Bush's Memex
Tim Berners-Lee Invents the World Wide Web
Basic Web Tools
The Web Explodes
How Much Information Does the Web Hold?
Cataloging
Indexing
Using Portals
Multimedia
Wrapping Up the Web