COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: False Dilemma, Difference Engine, Analytical Engine
13 Jun 2018
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October 19th, 2017
Computing Over 2,500 Years and The Golden Age of the Internet
Lecture 6
Convergence
• The oig togethe of seeal disete tehologies to ake hid teholog p.
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• Today: telecommunications + computing + broadcasting
• Also commercial convergence
Humans computing
• The abacus - aids in calculations, relies on users knowledge
o visual aid for mental calculations
o manual not mechanical
o invented to support early trade
• It is a oo featue of hua soiet that as it becomes more stable, well-off,
ad ople, its ietieess ill also iease p. 1
Mechanical tools
• The Pascaline - step in process to get calculations done, but it never took off
• The automatic loom - used for fabrics
• The difference engine - was sigifiat, ast useful
• The analytical engine - wasn't significant, was useful
• The patte of holes ould e used to epeset a astat idea suh as a pole
stateet o the a data euied fo that poles solutio p. 1
Implications of mechanization and automation
• Deskilling - replacing labour with automation. Separates concept of a task to what to
takes to carry out task
• Hierarchies of types of labour - economic and social value, white (business, finance),
blue (manual labour) and pink (emotional and empathetic skills) collar labour
• False dichotomy between different kinds of work
The industrial revolution
• Industrialization - rise of factory labour
• Shift away from self-work to specialized factory work, and where and how people are
living
• People move toward the places they are working at
• Expansion of cities around the factories
• Division of work and personal time - weeks and weekends
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