{"id":87,"date":"2014-02-03T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/?p=87"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:20","slug":"influences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/2014\/02\/03\/influences\/","title":{"rendered":"Influences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/files\/2014\/02\/influence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89\" alt=\"Graphic of overlapping ellipses\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/researcharchiving\/files\/2014\/02\/influence.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social Circles of Influence by Bruce Dupree<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Listening to Dan Porter present to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhistorylab.org\/\">New History Lab<\/a> on Friday I thought of some writers who influence me:<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Korzybski: Founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalsemantics.org\/\">general semantics<\/a>, a system that I think works well for examining how we model our environments in our minds and where problems can arise in our thinking and communication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaronlanier.com\/\">Jaron Lanier<\/a>: Pioneer of virtual reality, musician and one of the few people I think are worth reading in their analysis of the Internet and technology and calls for them to be good for humans and not harmful.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Nelson: Came up with a rich idea for hypertext well before the web, using a quite different set of metaphors and things it ought to do. I had the pleasure of meeting him in Leicester.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>: My favourite writer on a rational approach to security, computer and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/people\/jakob-nielsen\/\">Jakob Nielsen<\/a>: I&#8217;ve been reading his <a title=\"The Alertbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/articles\/\">articles on Usability<\/a> from the beginning (since 1995) and attended one of his company&#8217;s training sessions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sherry_Turkle\">Sherry Turkle<\/a>: I really liked her book<em>\u00a0The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit<\/em> (1984). ISBN 0-262-70111-1 about how kids and adults understand computers and different programming styles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Mumford\">Lewis Mumford<\/a>: He wrote\u00a0<i>Technics and Civilization\u00a0<\/i>(1934) about trends and paradigm changes in technology which anticipates many debates we have now or ought to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/\">Edward Tufte<\/a>: Wrote and published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/books_vdqi\"><em>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(1983, 2001) which I remember being advertised in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/\">New Scientist<\/a> for years and was delighted by: how (not) to present information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Roszak_(scholar)\">Theodore Roszak<\/a>: Wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520085848\">The Cult of Information:\u00a0A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking<\/a>\u00a0(1986, 1994) which for a while was on the bookshelves of many friends. Funny that I&#8217;ve never picked up anything else by him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Wall\">Larry Wall<\/a>: Created the scripting and programming language <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.org\/\">Perl<\/a>. I like his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/threevirtues.com\/\">three great virtues of a programmer<\/a>:\u00a0Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Dan Porter present to the New History Lab on Friday I thought of some writers who influence me: Alfred Korzybski: Founder of general semantics, a system that I think works well for examining how we model our environments in our minds and where problems can arise in our thinking and communication. 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