DESMA 8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Universal Turing Machine, Stored-Program Computer, Konrad Zuse
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L e c t u r e 1 2. The computer as the rst media machine that serves as the mode of production (create), the means of distribution (up- load), the site of reception (download), and the locus of praise and critique (talk) The notion that media mattered more so than what it com- municated. Media as extensions of man: wheel extension of foot, book extension of the eye, electric circuitry extension of the nervous system Individuals convinced that television is the death of us all. The death of high culture as a tragedy of massive propor- tions. Intelligentsia : did not grow up with television. Technology will heal divisions and create a techno- primitive utopia. World of total involvement, nobody can imagine what pri- vate guilt can be . A brand new world of allatonceness (cessation of time and space)
