Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Killer Application, Marc Andreessen, National Science Foundation Network
22 Mar 2016
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Encyclopaedia: idea of making the world"s store of knowledge available to the ordinary person, encyclop die. Denis diderot: encyclopaedia britannica (1768) muliple volume work. Modelled on the french encyclop die: product of the age of enlightenment access to knowledge, improving social condiions through science, ordering knowledge through what there is to know. Knowledge and power: poliical power and informaion excepion, poliical decisions as to what gets put in. Wells, best known for war of the worlds. Had ideas about how to navigate life in the context of informaion explosion (1920s-1930s) In order to succeed in an informaion context, one had to specialize focus on one or two areas. Whole other areas of knowledge that you would have relaively no grasp of. Educated men and women were once assumed to have a wide understanding of many diferent subjects. Technology was thought to be too crude and too expensive unsuccessful at geing funding. Apple ii and personal computer (pc) (late 1970s/early 1980s)
