& let's not forget ada lovelace & charles babbage ...
On 29/07/12 1:04 PM, Simon Biggs wrote:
Perhaps they mean 1967? But that remains much later than any dawn,
into the second generation of electronic computing. Realistically you
would have to say the dawn was closer to 1947 - but that depends on
how you define a computer. It could be considered to have dawned far
earlier. This author could benefit from some texts by Zielinski,
Parrikki or Huhtamo, on media archeology, in their Christmas stocking
this year?
best
Simon
On 29 Jul 2012, at 11:55, Tom Keene wrote:
Perhaps I'm missing something, but "dawn of computer revolution in
1997" made me double take. The beginning of the computer evolution in
1997! Come on, the conditions which gave rise to a computer
revolution go way way back - its not possible to use specific dates
that mark the beginning, the world doesn't work like that, there are
many strands and trajectories of technological and human histories,
the formative years of the telegraph to name but one, that made it
inevitable that the current conditions of this technological age
would take place. But then I haven't read the book....;)
Tom
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM, marc <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org
<mailto:marc.garr...@furtherfield.org>> wrote:
Close to the Machine: Code and the Mesmerism of Building a World from
Scratch
by Maria Popova
The sociocultural relationship between humanity and technology
has been
the subject of equal parts dystopianism, utopianism, and layered
reflection. But what of the actual, intimate, one-on-one relationship
between human and machine, creator and created? That's exactly what
software engineer Ellen Ullman explores in Close to the Machine:
Technophilia and Its Discontents (public library) --- a
fascinating look
at the riveting dawn of computer revolution in 1997, those formative
years of learning to translate the inexorable messiness of being
human
into elegant and organized code, examined through Ullman's
singular lens
of being a rare woman on this largely male-driven forefront.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/26/close-to-the-machine-ellen-ullman/
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