SOC 880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Darpa, Difference Engine, Technological Convergence
13 Oct 2018
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(advanced research projects agency network) the first iteration of the. Internet originated in 1969 as a military project designed to connect a small number of computers in order to share information, processing power, and withstand possible attacks. Is an extension of corporate control over public goods. Plants such as the neem tree, hawaiian taro plant,the acaiberry and the amazonian ayahuasca vine, have been discovered by western scientists in spite of having been known as traditional knowledge for generations. The man who conceived of a machine called the difference engine (1822), which could mechanically tabulate error-free mathematical calculations. Babbage"s difference engine was not a computer, historians of technology have pointed out that its design was not too different from the computers that emerged over 100 years later: The long-term trend towards corporate concentration derives from the core logic of capitalism and is presently the dominant force of the two.
