Dec 4, 2006
Digit-ization
Someone [Dan Cohen, Bill Turkel, Rob McDougall?] had earlier found a scanned thumb in Google Print. I found two fingers!! Kinda like this:
This one is taken from here and it serves to remind us that Google has not yet become selfaware and decided to terminate all human beings. Though, the end is nigh.
Incidentally, I am pretty sure Michel De Certeau predicted this in the computational bit of his Writing of History - historians using computers to find scanned digits instead of writing history, i.e.
This one is taken from here and it serves to remind us that Google has not yet become selfaware and decided to terminate all human beings. Though, the end is nigh.
Incidentally, I am pretty sure Michel De Certeau predicted this in the computational bit of his Writing of History - historians using computers to find scanned digits instead of writing history, i.e.
To redeem this post, I call attention to the book linked above - a reprint of Elliot & Dawson's History of India as Told by Its Own Historians [1867]. This version had the juicy bits re-arranged with some excellently Pythonesque/Pynchonesque drawings attached.
See for example, the the type of Ceylon beauty attached to Ceylon:
or an Indian barber attached to nothing in particular on that page: