CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Niels Bohr, Cultural Determinism, Phonograph
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Writing: literacy because pathway to civil servant educated middle class. Printing press: inspired entire industry to develop, created content, technological and cultural determinism. Invention: completely new technology, very rare, e. g. super computer to tablets, smartphones. Innovation: new ways to make previous technology useful. Diffusion of technologies: projection, new uses, work of designers, marketers, innovative users, adapting into lives. Think of an invention, taking this development and developing led lights as an innovation. Explaining how to get to next place. Much more common for third party developers today, was considered threat 100 years ago, Prediction very difficult, especially about the future (niels bohr) keep in mind about future are the same things to keep in mind about the past. Predictions of the year 2000 from the ladies home journal of december 1900. Prediction: man will see around the world with cameras thousands of miles at a span, viewed in theatres, e. g. movie theatres.
