What great irony there is that the group of people who used Babbage’s simple calculating machine were, in fact, the first ‘computers’. Some of us might think of the Univac that took up several rooms as the first computer, others the PC/Apple as the first computers, or as noted in last week’s class it was [...]
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Computing Power and Communications
Posted in Prior Classes on 22 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It’s rather amazing to read the bit-by-bi…
Posted in Prior Classes on 17 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Week 3 – It’s rather amazing to read the bit-by-bit innovations regarding the ultimate development of the telephone and how both one-upsmanship, collaboration, and exploratory integration of existing discoveries on the part of the tech-savvy “illuminati” of that day moved things forward. The propellant of transmitting sound electrically seemed to stem from the raw concept [...]
Week 3 Questions
Posted in Prior Classes on 15 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Discuss the importance of “supervening necessity” – can you think of other examples?
According to Chapter three, it points out that the supervening necessity of speaking telephone is the limited liability company. Under my explanation, I would say that is a kind of change of social systems, industry standard or the rising needs of something. For [...]
“Aha” Week 2 Readings
Posted in Prior Classes on 9 October 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The theories described in this reading may still hold true as the most effective ways of researching and analyzing New Media trends (i.e. uses and gratification and diffusion of information. Some of the examples, and side notes in the article though, truly reflect the speed at which new media is changing and integrating into society. [...]
