SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Darpa, Virtual Community, Computer Network
1 Sep 2016
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The internet is giant network of computers located all over the world that communicate with each other. Destroy in person contact-people so caught in the virtual world they lose contact with reality. Promote escapism-compartmentalized sights lose touch with big picture. Commercialization of the internet involved not only the development of competitive, private network services (1) (2) (3) The 1980s involved the transition between the industrial and information age. The ussr"s launch of sputnik spurred the united states to create the advanced research projects. In 1950, licklider moved from the psycho-acoustic laboratory at harvard university. 1960 he envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, his concept was very much like the internet of today man and computer-symbiosis . 1965 working with thomas merrill, connected the tx-2 computer in mass. to the q-32 in california.
