Blog Entry #3

After looking at my two partners' blog entries, I think creating a page on Roger Fidler or adding to 'The World Brain' are great ideas.  There is a great deal of information we could take from our class textbook, particularly from Fidler's article on technomyopia.  We could give a brief history of Fidler- his education, career, etc.- and then have a section on technopyopia.  I think using the example of video games that we talked about in class would be useful; it illustrates how they did not take off initially as expected, however, decades later they have changed the very way we use televisions.  After doing some research on Google, I also learned that Fidler is interested in 'mediamorphosis,' which could possibly be another section in our page on the 'visionary'- there is currently no site for 'mediamorphosis' on Wikipedia ether.  A site I found that may be particularly useful is the following: 

http://www.wtn.net/2004/bio40.html

This page describes Fidler and his work, including a brief biography and description of the work he considers "most innovative."  I had a hard time finding much more information on Fidler using Google, and found even less using Ask.com.  I am pretty confident we can gather enough information to create our own site on Fidler and his work, however, it may take a good deal of research and hunting around online to find everything.

There is also not a great deal of information on the World Brain or H.G. Wells either.  While they have a list of all his work, it may be interesting to add more information about his background, rationality behind the 'World Brain,' critcisms or praise for this idea, etc.  I think what Steph wrote on her blog would also be great information to add; we can find more in our textbook as well.  There is a great deal of information online about both H.G. Wells and the World Brain (such as https://sherlock.sims.berkely.edu/wells/world_brain.html) so I am not worried about finding information missing on Wikipedia.