https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/28/a-note-from-the-bleeding-edge/ The Humanities And Technology Camp Tue, 04 May 2010 07:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/28/a-note-from-the-bleeding-edge/#comment-193 Thu, 29 May 2008 16:30:16 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=52#comment-193 I agree that this is related to sustainability. What we need to avoid is a constant cycle of burning enthusiasm followed by rapid burnout among innovators. I was at a meeting last month when a younger colleague expressed the “I don’t care if I am an Associate Professor forever, I’m doing what I love” mantra that was mine twenty years ago. Now I care, both about me and about those who follow me; it shouldn’t be that way. Some of the problems may be rooted in institutional discipline-based notions of scholarship, but until the Revolution comes, I also think we need to protect ourselves and our sanity. As to the age thing, the computer was in a class I took as a college sophomore (1969), and the IBM cards ten years later. Glad I qualified my guess with a “may be”.

]]> https://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/28/a-note-from-the-bleeding-edge/#comment-192 Thu, 29 May 2008 13:24:57 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=52#comment-192 While you have a little of an edge age wise, unless you were using that computer in high school, I still remember those IBM cards. I’m interested in what can be done to minimize the pain as well. Although your stories are probably quite different, I think this is related to Mark’s call for discussion of sustainability and my own concern for definitions of scholarship.

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