On 26/07/12 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
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
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
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
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
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
