A Digital Media Lab and the Last Printing Presses
I didn’t blog earlier today because I was busy visiting digital media production labs at universities in the metro Atlanta area. Emory has a wonderful space meant for collaborative work. Moveable furniture, wonderful soft lighting, nooks and crankies and also high tech conference space. Tomorrow I am off to see Georgia State’s Digital Aquarium. I am partly in charge of developing a lab for Kennesaw State University’s new Social Science building, in which our Communication Department will be housed.
Then tonight I read Jeff Jarvis’s post: The last presses.
In his long post, he writes:
Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger went years past where I planned to time-travel the next day. Talking about the presses they’d just spent tens of millions of pounds buying, he shrugged and said:
“They may be the last presses we ever own.”
Well, any how, I best not waste any time, and be sure I correctly plan the new lab. However, with each day, the technology changes. Of course, everyone will tell you it is not about the technology, it is about the content. Maybe there is some truth to that because think about it; Moses delivered a very important set of messages on stone tablets. Plus they were written in a easy to read list of ten.
Oh, you can take a virtual tour of the Emory computing center here.
