In my previous post I ranted about events leading up to modern computing (I also went-off about time, distance and the inherent destruction of modern society as we know it… good times). To supplement the first point, I found an article by Joan Van Tassel in New Telecom Quarterly, titled as above. The article talks [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Webcasting…the computer paradigm shifts to 3rd gear
Posted in Prior Classes on 28 October 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Week 4: Supplemental Readings—Jing Gu
Posted in Prior Classes on 26 October 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Traditional Media in the Digital Age
I look upon the contents of this article as an extension of our assigned readings. It tells that what is keeping on along with the Internet coming across the news media.
In this article, data and analysis focus on consumer habits, economical reckoning and prediction of traditional media in the [...]
Is the Net Doomed – Supplemental Reading for Week 4
Posted in Prior Classes on 26 October 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Bruce Sterling writing for PC World states that the Internet is “a fun-house reflection of the entire planet.” And to that end it has become the biggest crime scene in the history of the world. Spammers run rampant, viruses are everywhere, Phishing baits the hook, and now hackers can take over your PC, lock it [...]
Week 4: Winston chapters 9 & 10 + some
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Ch. 9: The First Computers
With WWII came the supervening social necessity for something to solve really big math problems quickly. In the case of the U.S. the math problem was ballistic firing tables. Mortar shell trajectories took along time to figure out by hand or many hands for that matter. In the case of Briton [...]
Dressed for the H-Bomb
Posted in Prior Classes on 25 October 2005 | 1 Comment »
The reading this week was excellent foundation work for our understanding of how Digital Media came to be the fluid, innovation driven beast it is today. Winston’s clinical explanation of the supervening social necessity for the computer (ballistics forecasts/charts) and the technical and mental processes that facilitated it’s inception, wasn’t extremely mind-blowing but was useful. [...]
