DIG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radioshack, Prentice Hall, Digital Equipment Corporation
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Net neutrality- web would be the same everywhere. Now means equal speeds of internet, not the slow lane vs. fast lane. Symbiotic relationship between medium and content- medium affects content, content affects medium? o. The personal and social consequences of any medium result from the new scale of the medium o. Need time with technology to truly see how it will affect our lives- positive and negative effects o o. Space race- if whole country bands together, we can achieve things unimaginable, opened our eyes to fragility of the earth. Target tracks customer data- able to predict what products people would buy, send individualized flyers to customers. Computer used to be a person that solved problems, became used to refer a machine in. Early 40s, "43 or "44, enac- electronic numerical integrator (innovative?) computer first digital computer, developed using vacuum tubes and used punch cards, first digital computer, really only a calculator.
