The document discusses frameworks of ambient research and how writing and recursion are related. It explores how ambient research and new technologies that push and pull information can foster cognitive recursion beyond traditional formats like books and screens. It questions whether these new platforms genuinely promote generative thought and leave meaningful traces in the form of interlinked ideas.

1. Wade and Touch: Recursion, Ambient Research, and the Future of Writing Brian J. McNely University of Texas at El Paso

2. Things: + Frameworks of Ambient Research + Writing and Recursion + Implications

3. Ambient Research.

4. Mobies.

6. Push.

8. Pull.

11. Streams.

13. Wade.

14. "In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference." (Hofstadter, 2007, p. 363)

15. Writing i s recursive.

16. Ambient Research, Recursion, and Writing.

18. So What?

19. Generative Recursion.

20. Are the platforms generative? Do they foster cognitive recursion, beyond the classroom, beyond books, and beyond the computer screen? Do they leave meaningful traces and create hyperties? ( Are we ready?)

21. Image Credits: "Number 3" http://www.flickr.com/photos/13568588@N07/1385795063/ "Misty Lake" http://www.flickr.com/photos/fjny/352678088/sizes/o/ Palm http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/the-palm-pre/ Push http://www.flickr.com/photos/rougerouge/215087724/ Pull http://www.flickr.com/photos/jans_cat/520870009/ Streams http://www.flickr.com/photos/sworrall/144756339/ Wading http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_fabulous/2781317542/ Recursion http://www.flickr.com/photos/genista/2420613/ Google http://www.flickr.com/photos/markknol/2568436053/