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April 28, 2006
Bards, St. Patrick and Information Design
D: I don't think there is any real "design movement" to grab onto right now. There're inklings of a wave, though. I feel something coming on... Maybe it has to do with my fascination lately with "information design" or "scanning quickly" or just reducing down bits of text and pictures into fast, easy-to-digest snippets...
M: My, that's a lot to take in. I have found my thoughts quite often straying down a similar path, regarding the transition from traditional media to electronic media, what it means to all of us, and what it means to me specifically. I feel like great change is also afoot. "Information Design"... I like the sound of it.
D: Is it a good thing?
M: Probably very good, very terrible, and everything in between.
D: Does content get dumbed down? Are we becoming zombies?
M: Yes and yes, and it will take highly skilled and creative people to ensure that this decay stabilizes, or even starts to wane.
D: What happens with a fat book like Anna Karena, is anyone going to have patience to finish something like that or will they be too busy scanning blogs?
M: I like to think about what happened in Ireland (because it's easy) at the coming of St. Patrick, Christianity, and most importantly, literacy, to a land with an ancient and exceedingly sophisticated oral tradition of information. Bards did not cease to ply their trade, but they were however able to share their poetry or scathing satires with a much greater audience.
Monastaries worked incessantly producing both secular and religious books that standardized folk tradition and religion, and guaranteed their survival through the archiving of this information.
Storytellers and musicians were able to sustain themselves and their work, and share it with far more people than would have been, or in fact was the case in an illiterate Ireland.
I think the biggest difference between then and now is simply the rate and the strength at which the change is occuring.
Oh, I'm starving... back to my shredded wheat.
Hoo Roo,
~Mark
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Comments
I'm published! It's a rare event when I'm eloquent, inspired, and so introspective all at the same time, as I was the day I wrote that. What makes it, for me anyway, twice as good and perhaps even that much more of an accurate analogy is that in hindsight, and a week later, I still believe it.
Posted by: Mark at May 4, 2006 4:36 PM
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