Hey everyone!  I found these recently.  They don’t match up exactly what we’re learning about right now, but they do relate to past topics.

Throwback #1:

When one of my friends and I were talking about high school English classes and the different interpretations people have of books, my friend linked me to an article about Ray Bradbury.  The article mentioned people misinterpreting Ray Bradbury’s main theme in Fahrenheit 451.  However, I realized that the article mentions how  applies to our class!

http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/

Essentially, Bradbury was worried about the negative effects of television, which reminded me of Plato’s Phaedrus and how worried Socrates’s character was of the use of written word/text as a communication mode.

Throwback #2:

I found this when I Googled the Alpha Centauri video linked on the Spies blog post.  A few Wikipedia links led me to this image from a computer game called FreeCiv:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Freeciv-2.1.8_technology_tree.png

The dependencies aspect of it reminded me of Heilbroner’s points on how certain developments lead to other developments (social or technological).

Enjoy!

-Bernadette Samson