HISTORY 300 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 Notes
6 Oct 2016
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The computer as embedded in history and the computer as creating history. Cultural portrayal of geopolitical absurdity during the time around the cuban missile. Idea that computers have automated the system so that humans cannot control them mutually assured destruction. Relationships between systems and individuals system is linked to one crazy event/person because everything is connected. Rational system has become rational to the point of being mad computers are important because the system cannot function without it the computer as a symbol of rationality taken to the extreme. Sage air defense had strength, speed, and service . It was obsolete by the time it was but but it became part of a situation of preparing for the worst while simultaneously creating the worst. Us air force lm, made in the early 60s. Showed the integration of federal government, military, and private sector coming together to create a centralized system to monitor the air.
