Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Darpa, Altair 8800, Vannevar Bush

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: Daniel Robinson

Document Summary

Encyclopaedia: this age spans for about 200-300 years, world(cid:859)s first great e(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455)(cid:272)lopedia. Knowledge and power: scientific and philosophical reasoning is important, less emphasis on god. Serving a broader public good: political information. Shaping the balance of power from only elites to mass of people (similar to newspapers) Specialized learning: generalized learning is no longer important, focus on a particular area, 2 generations before you were expected to be well rounded. 20th century encyclopaedia (cid:858)(cid:272)leari(cid:374)g house for the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d(cid:859) Depot where knowledge and ideas are clarified, sorted, digested, etc: world brain. The clearing house constitutes material beginning of the world brain: networked. Network management like wikipedia with more editorial structure. Computerized networks did not exist yet, but wells liked the idea of networking where the diffusion was easy. Tried to get support among scientists for probing this idea further. Putting small pictures on a piece of film. Takes a massive amount of paper and put into a tiny amount of space.