HISTORY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Computer, John Mauchly, Vannevar Bush
29 Sep 2016
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The computer seen as not just technological but also economical, political, social, and cultural. Technology as progress of civilization vs. technology as an increase of barbarity. There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism - walter benjamin. The 20th century experienced great economic growth and prosperity however, it also had two world wars and much violence with an increase in the power of the weaponry. Eisenhower was concerned about what he called the military-industrial complex during a time of great american progress worried about how the military and industry are complicating the progress. America is making and possibly causing a threat to democracy concern about universities moving from places of free thinking to places of military industrialized purposes. The computerization of society has essentially been a side effect of the computerization of war - frank rose. The eniac (electronic numerical integrator and computer) was designed by john.
