P3D Re: Alternative content - and more

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:01 PM 10/14/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>Xal wrote:
>
> > Brian Phillips states the following prescription:
> >
> > >The list is about the medium not the message.
> >
> > Is that so? Technology separated from content? That would be apalling.
> > How about making smart bombs and being fascinated with the technique of
> > 'navigation' as separate from 'where it's going'? (Like the early days at
> > Negroponte's MIT lab with stereoscopic 3D graphics geniuses working on
> > cruise missle guidance...'wow that's a neat imaging technique!')

For the record, the Media Lab has done a lot of work with holography and 3D 
imaging, but no one was working on cruise missile guidance.  They could 
never get any military contracts because the lab's express policy was to 
keep everything non-confidential.

-pd


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