In the beginning of the article Ancient Images and New Technologies:
The Semiotics of the Web by Philippe Codognet he had mentioned, “images
have been supposed to speak more directly than words to the soul.” Immediately
I thought of the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” I remembered
the painting The Gun and the Heart or La Pistols y el Corazon (1989) by
George Yepes. It was simple with only two characters within it, but if looked
closely, there could be many stories behind it.
I was amazed to see that something, such as binary notation, was used in
the future as well as used in the past. I think it strange sometimes how that
happens in history. Leibniz using binary for a medallion made me remember
Leonardo De Vinci’s inventions and how some of them involved flight which
looked similar to the present with planes and helicopters.
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