It’s so fascinating to imagine the early conceptualizations of computers compared to the machine that we think of today. What is an even more abstract idea is that people can even see the similarities between a ballistics table generator and a MacBook Air, or how about an associative indexing memory machine compared with the hyperlink we love and know so well? This is an excellent article that gives recognition and appreciation to the early pioneers of computers and “new media”, while not even realizing they were apart of it (Norbert Wiener, for instance).
Something else that I keep noticing popping up is the notion that the realm of new media is a pool where all networks of art or information can flood together to form a massive social network. I used to think about being connected to others across the world through the Ethernet chord that runs into my laptop, but now I realize that this is not what keeps us connected. These articles have shown me that it is our desire to share experiences and data with others and to relate over issues that drives the ever-advancing technology that we call the internet.
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