Week Four - The Cold War, Space Race, Emerging Markets
Class Materials:
Required Reading/Viewing
Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The atlantic monthly, 176(1), 101-108.
Evans, C. L. (2020). Broad band: The untold story of the women who made the internet. Penguin. (Ch. 2)
Haigh, T., & Ceruzzi, P. E. (2021). A new history of modern computing. MIT Press. (Ch.1)
Shannon, C. E. (1948). A mathematical theory of communication. The Bell system technical journal, 27(3), 379-423.
Von Neumann, J. (1993). First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 15(4), 27-75.
Wiener, N. (1954). Men, Machines, and the World About. I: N. Wardrip-Fruin and N. Montfort (red.). The New Media Reader. (you can also listen to Wiener himself give the talk here)
Shetterly, M. (2016). The Woman the Mercury Astronauts Couldn’t Live Without. Nautilus.
Murray, S. (2022). A Warm Meal and Kisses Too: The Sensible Sensationalism of ProtoComputing. Feminist Media Histories, 8(4), 55-84.
United Auto Workers Report on Automation 1954
EAMES: A Communication Primer (1953)
Cutler, K. (2018) The unicorn hunters. Logic.
Eglash, R. (2007). Broken metaphor: The master-slave analogy in technical literature. Technology and culture, 48(2), 360-369.
