1.“welcome to the present”
main points
-When digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media.
- Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.
2. “computers” can take many different material forms
-“computer technology” does not necessarily start as silicon and gold.
-“computer technology” does not necessarily need to be implemented as hardware or software.
3. George boole: “an investigation into the laws of thought” (1847)
Charles babbage, “difference engine” (1848)
4. The two building blocks of computers - switches, connectors
5. This week’s main reading - Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think."
(1) vannevar bush is a MIT professor and founder of NSF.
(2) He invented the “differential analyzer” .
(3) MEMEX was based on Bush's work developing an improved photoelectric microfilm selector.
(4) microfilm selector is an electronic retrieval technology pioneered by Emanuel Goldberg.
(5) Questions about "as we may think" - 1,2,3,4
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