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I found this Chomsky video last night. It's from the late 80's early 90's. He's really still in his prime here. He makes some really insightful calls on the dir

I found this Chomsky video last night. It's from the late 80's early 90's. He's really still in his prime here. He makes some really insightful calls on the direction of the emerging "Information Super Highway" in this as well. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-kL0UNWcWFc&feature=share https://youtube.com/watch?v=-kL0UNWcWFc&feature=share

lookingforsome 6y ago
TL;DR of the idea of an Information Super Highway?
- krapp 6y ago
  It's what some people were calling the internet/Worldwide Web in the early 1990s[0]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
- leejoramo 6y ago
  In the USA our main national automobile highway is called the “Interstate”, because it connected the States into one system. Previous systems were built at the State level. Sometimes we referred to Interstates as “Super Highways”. This Interstate system was inspired by the German “Autobahn” When we started to connect different independent computer networks, it felt very similar to what the Interstate had done just 20 years before. So the term “Internet” was created. When the Internet started to hit the mainstream culture in the 1990’s, the comparison to the Interstate became even more useful. “Now you can email between networks such as AOL and CompuServe.” So people started to play with the words: Information Super Highway Infobahn And many more
jswizzy 6y ago
Is in his prime code for before everything he made up about langue was debunked?
- kgarten 6y ago
  Not sure, why you attack him with such malice. I don’t agree with Chomsky in a lot of topics, still I believe he’s one of the large, great intellectuals of our time. Listen to his sentences when he talks ... I would have a hard time writing so eloquently (and he just speaks them). By the way, I assume you mean “Language” not “langue”, or did you want to refer to the social consensus on how signs are applied. The later is not so much Chomsky but de Saussure. Chomsky started in the 60s with Competence/Performance ... Language is hard :) I know and Chomsky contributed a lot in understanding it better, even though he didn’t reach you it seems.
- dgellow 6y ago
  I think the OP hints to Chomsky’s age. He’s 93 years old, which obviously impacts his talking and presentation skills. I’m really impressed every time I see a recent video of Chomsky, he seems to still have his full cognition and is still energetic and motivated by his political goals. At his age that’s not a given.

lookingforsome 6y ago

TL;DR of the idea of an Information Super Highway?

krapp 6y ago
It's what some people were calling the internet/Worldwide Web in the early 1990s[0]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
leejoramo 6y ago
In the USA our main national automobile highway is called the “Interstate”, because it connected the States into one system. Previous systems were built at the State level. Sometimes we referred to Interstates as “Super Highways”. This Interstate system was inspired by the German “Autobahn” When we started to connect different independent computer networks, it felt very similar to what the Interstate had done just 20 years before. So the term “Internet” was created. When the Internet started to hit the mainstream culture in the 1990’s, the comparison to the Interstate became even more useful. “Now you can email between networks such as AOL and CompuServe.” So people started to play with the words: Information Super Highway Infobahn And many more

jswizzy 6y ago

Is in his prime code for before everything he made up about langue was debunked?

kgarten 6y ago
Not sure, why you attack him with such malice. I don’t agree with Chomsky in a lot of topics, still I believe he’s one of the large, great intellectuals of our time. Listen to his sentences when he talks ... I would have a hard time writing so eloquently (and he just speaks them). By the way, I assume you mean “Language” not “langue”, or did you want to refer to the social consensus on how signs are applied. The later is not so much Chomsky but de Saussure. Chomsky started in the 60s with Competence/Performance ... Language is hard :) I know and Chomsky contributed a lot in understanding it better, even though he didn’t reach you it seems.
dgellow 6y ago
I think the OP hints to Chomsky’s age. He’s 93 years old, which obviously impacts his talking and presentation skills. I’m really impressed every time I see a recent video of Chomsky, he seems to still have his full cognition and is still energetic and motivated by his political goals. At his age that’s not a given.