TIME Magazine Cover: Computer in Society
Weizenbaum examines computers and society - The Tech
An article from the Tuesday, April 9, 1985 issue of The Tech - MIT's oldest and largest newspaper and the first newspaper published on the Internet.
The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.
Computer: A History of the Information Machine
Computer: A History of the Information Machine is a history of computing written by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray first published in 1996. It follows the history of "information machines" from Charles Babbage's difference engine through Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines to the invention of the modern electronic digital computer. A revised 2nd edition published in 2004 included new material on the Internet and World Wide Web, while the updated 3rd edition published in 2013 includes contributions from historians Nathan Ensmenger and Jeffrey Yost. The 3rd edition extends the story to include recent phenomena such as social networking and revises the discussion of early history to reflect new insights from the literature.
How we got here
Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.
triumph of the nerds
The Computer for the 21st Century
one more final edit from me to go The Computer for the 21st Century
The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution
JAMES W. CAREY, JOHN J. QUIRK, The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution, The American Scholar, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer, 1970), pp. 395-424
The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
Interpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world.The digital era promises, as did many other te
Programmed Inequality
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty y...
The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution
JAMES W. CAREY, JOHN J. QUIRK, The Mythos of the Electronic Revolution, The American Scholar, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring, 1970), pp. 219-241
The International Research Conference in the History of Computing at Los Alamos, 1976
under the hood
This week I’ve been thinking about what it’s like for a new generation to make things with computers. When we were talking in Berlin, Luce made a point that...
Anna Stansbury on Twitter / X
Nope. This paper is about US academics 1900-1960! The present looks different.Asking people to stop drawing inference from these stats as if they're about the present& asking authors to put time period in their title and abstract!🙏 https://t.co/bphnK6Hy7H— Anna Stansbury (@annastansbury) December 31, 2024
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us
The 800-Millisecond Problem
A blog about my journey through Mozilla,Open Source Contribution, Virtual,Augmented,Mixed Reality, Security,Hackathon and in general technology.
