CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mass Society, Cultural Determinism, Technological Determinism
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Cs 100 - a: lecture: monday, december 4th: Censusionsists turn people into numbers, that can govern the population. As soon as you had an empire, needed a system to keep them in place, writing started as bureaucratic device and has lead from there into other technologies, same thing in europe, asia and modern society. This apparatus works unerringly as the mills of the gods, but beats them hollow as to speed. It was like god, it was a new type of speed. The 1890 tabulator was capable only of counting. Subsequent models were also able to add, thus broadening their scope to accounting, warehousing, and shipping applications. Between 1902 and 1905, hollerith also developed an automatic card feed and a method for reading cards in motion and settled on a standard card format. In 1928, ibm produced its first tabulator with both addition and subtraction capability. Age of empires - spurred development of writing systems.
