Ahmad Woods – Lead Response

In Phillip Arge’s Surveillance and Capture Two Models of Privacy examines 2 forms of information collection which he dubs as surveillance and capture. He specifically points to capture as being a relatively new form of information collection which then presents ramification which he explains in the essay. He describes Surveillance as from a visual metaphor perspective as a larger society or those in power watching over. Capture on the other hand is simplification of interaction through the automation of transactions in a market economy. Arges further argues that society would need to adapt to in order to coexist with in a capture based one. In Ken Goldberg’s The Unique Phenomenon of a Distance examines telepistemology and that is knowledge acquired at a distance. It explains that the internet facilitates telerobotics and in some ways is redefining our classical definition of knowledge.
In Ken Goldbergs article he quotes Borgmann who argues that the Internet has played an analogous role with information: Our curiosity remains but we are losing the attentiveness and stamina needed to identify and extract knowledge. My question to you class is what makes the knowledge acquired from the internet different from how we classical acquire knowledge if it does at all.