or giving an abacus a good workout (I once filled out a grant application
using one) -
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, 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>
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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