HISTORY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cyborg, American Airlines
10 Oct 2016
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Lecture 6: the cold war and the democratic personality. Sage created to monitor air of the us by radar. Sage failed but led to the technology of business applications. The xed cost of ight increased dramatically with the development of jet planes. The new technology that was universal and real time, allowed for the emergence of other systems such as credit cards and upc codes. The invention of erma (electronic recording machine for accounting) allowed for bank of america to replace all bookkeepers. Ronald regan was the spokesperson for ge which created erma more than 100x faster than the best bookkeeper. Trying to determine not how to ght the technology but how to use it other ways besides a closed system computer not as data processing but as communication. Us begins to work with social scientists to imagine a world with a different use for technology make humans more human and make machines more human.
