On 29/07/12 Simon Biggs <si...@littlepig.org.uk> 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?
perhaps 1947 was midnight, what came before it was yesterday, 1997 is dawn, and we're just getting out of bed for work on a monday morning ;-) > >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/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> >> >> -- >> TOM KEENE | THE ANTHILL SOCIAL >> ><> Artist. Interactive Designer. Programmer. >> ><> 07930 573 944 >> ><> 47 Hardel walk, Tulse Hill, SW2 2QG >> ><> t...@theanthillsocial.co.uk >> ><> www.theanthillsocial.co.uk >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > >Simon Biggs >si...@littlepig.org.uk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK >skype: simonbiggsuk > >s.bi...@ed.ac.uk Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh >http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/ >http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/ MSc by Research in Interdisciplinary >Creative Practices >http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?id=656&cw_xml=details.php > -- http://jwm-art.net/ image/audio/text/code/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
