Join 📚 J'S Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
Ferdinand de Saussure famously claimed that the relation between signifier and signified was arbitrary, that language derived meaning from the opposition of otherwise meaningless tokens. There is no necessary pattern for matching sets of sounds with particular things in the world, yet people have collectively assigned meanings to the distinctions between those sets of sounds.
Neo-Structuralism
Rob Horning
Advanced high technology is the seamless fusion of bits and atoms. It is adding intelligence to industry, rather than removing industry and leaving only information.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
Computers inspire people in the same way because they offer the same tough, ruthless challenges. If you aren't utterly on top of your game, computers will leave you whimpering in the dust.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise