HISTORY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Claude Shannon, George Boole
21 Sep 2016
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Us digital culture since wwii: the computerized society. Consolidated to 0s and 1s binary strings - 0s and 1s in combinations of 8. Interested in chinese way of using chance operations to tell fortunes. Rigorously logical and rational in western tradition but linked to eastern thinking of what humans cannot understand. Argued that boolean algebra can be applied to electricity. Creates idea that the computer can store not only the information, but the program to create the information. > in a combination of abstract and material, the digital age emerges. American standard code for information interchange (ascii) - 7 bit binary code that standardizes the code moving between human use and computer interpretation and understanding. Everyone uses computers but so few people can actually read code. The modern computer was invented during wwii to kill more people effectively .
