Week 4 comments

Winston
The most interesting aspect of this week’s Winston chapters to me was that people looked to computers to be fortune tellers. Specifically, they wanted computers to calculate human and animal behavior. Things that humans had yet to figure out equations for – elections and horse race outcomes – were somehow to be figured out by [...]

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Week 4: As We May Think

From telegraph to telephone, from calculating machine to information high way, from photography to television, As We May Think and Technology of The Third Mediamorphosis  both give me a clear-cut clue of the history of media technology. From Roger Fidler’s opinion, the third great mediamorphosis inaugurated by the powerful agents of technological change has had [...]

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P.O.V on E.N.I.A.C and M.O.R.E

Enough with the acronyms! It’s hard enough reading late at night. Winston has kept me reasonably engaged in past chapters, but I’m sorry to say 9 & 10 were a little more difficult. I blame the military. It’s interesting to note how much technology comes from public-sector invention. If only education had as much funding… [...]

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Week 4 Media Technology & Society

Winston readings – Drew
The first computers
At the beginning of the 20th century there was a real need for accurate firing tables for the ranging of artillery. And the onset of the First World War there was still a lot of guesswork involved in shooting a large gun. Creating a firing table involved tabulations of dozens [...]

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Week 4

While reading "Technologies of the Third Mediamorphosis," by Roger
Fidler, I started thinking about how prevalent email as the predominate
tool for disseminating information and communicating in an office
environment has become. I remember working in the office when
information was circulated around an office with a sticky note attached
to it that you had to initial to show that [...]

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