CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Herman Hollerith, United States Census Bureau, Mass Society
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How media became new, www, tv in net age. Go through history of all tech change we see. Writing coming about same time empire came about, time and time again: he asks: what the relevance is for temporary times, modern mass society, now live in an even more vast age, social driver demanded computers. Manovich: (cid:862)i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1012)(cid:1011) the u ce(cid:374)sus bureau (cid:449)as still i(cid:374)terpreti(cid:374)g figures fro(cid:373) the (cid:1005)880 census. For the 1890 census the cb adopted electric tabulating machines designed by herman. Hollerith tabulator capable of only counting subsequent models were also able to add, thus broadening their scope to accounting, warehousing, and shipping applications. 1902-1905 hollerith developed an automatic card feed and a method for creating cards in motion and settled on standard card format. Age of empires: spurred development of writing systems. Age of modern mass society: spurred development of computers: mass media was also necessary. Mass amount of people and development of mass media.
