Based on the article “As We May Think”:
1. What kind of civilian-physicist response was there post-war that encouraged Vannevar Bush to publish this article? (ex: were the physicists themselves really THAT impacted? They most likely had physicist-type jobs before the war led them to war-time physics; what prevented them from returning to that type of pre-war work?)
2. [...]
Archive for February, 2009
As We May Think – Questions
Posted in Evolution & Trends, Questions, tagged As We May Think, Bush on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Failure to Control (PowerPoint incl.)
Posted in Evolution & Trends, tagged Communications, Control, Cowan, Media, Technology on February 3, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Centuries of development and improvements to communications technology have revealed fairly predictable production and market trends. The lifecycle of a product has been established, the theories of performance have been addressed and the pros and cons of competition have been identified.
In her book, “A Social History of American Technology,” Ruth Schwartz Cowan follows the introduction [...]
Mobile for Change
Posted in Mobile Media on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The site PersonalDemocracy.com features a section devoted to Mobile Technology. In a blog posting on September 23, 2008, Justin Oberman writes about a Nokia Mobile Application Contest to Change the World.
Oberman reveals some interesting statistics that the average American consumer is probably unaware of:
“The Finnish company (Nokia) has 40 percent of the world market. That [...]
