[NetBehaviour] Close to the Machine: Code and the Mesmerism of Building a World from Scratch

[Alan Sondheim]

or giving an abacus a good workout (I once filled out a grant application 
using one) -


On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Simon Biggs wrote:

> Perhaps they mean 1967? But that remains much later than any dawn, into the second generation of electronic computing.
> Realistically you would have to say the dawn was closer to 1947 - but that depends on how you define a computer. It could be
> considered to have dawned far earlier. This author could benefit from some texts by Zielinski, Parrikki or Huhtamo, on media
> archeology, in their Christmas stocking this year?
> best
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> On 29 Jul 2012, at 11:55, Tom Keene wrote:
>
>       Perhaps I'm missing something, but "dawn of computer revolution in 1997" made me double take. The beginning of
>       the computer evolution in 1997! Come on, the conditions which gave rise to a computer revolution go way way back
>       - its not possible to use specific dates that mark the beginning, the world doesn't work like that, there are
>       many strands and trajectories of technological and human histories, the formative years of the telegraph to name
>       but one, that made it inevitable that the current conditions of this technological age would take place. But
>       then I haven't read the book....;)
>       Tom
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> 
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>       On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM, marc <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:
>             Close to the Machine: Code and the Mesmerism of Building a World from
>             Scratch
>
>             by Maria Popova
>
>             The sociocultural relationship between humanity and technology has been
>             the subject of equal parts dystopianism, utopianism, and layered
>             reflection. But what of the actual, intimate, one-on-one relationship
>             between human and machine, creator and created? That?s exactly what
>             software engineer Ellen Ullman explores in Close to the Machine:
>             Technophilia and Its Discontents (public library) ? a fascinating look
>             at the riveting dawn of computer revolution in 1997, those formative
>             years of learning to translate the inexorable messiness of being human
>             into elegant and organized code, examined through Ullman?s singular lens
>             of being a rare woman on this largely male-driven forefront.
>
>             http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/07/26/close-to-the-machine-ellen-ullman/
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