Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: World Brain, Network Management, Ray Tomlinson

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: Daniel Robinson

Document Summary

Product of the age of enlightenment, first time everybody could have. This idea that theres choice in what gets in the encyclopedia. The interplay between political power and informational succession. Very little interest from publishers, didn"t know what form it would. This type of encyclopedia has the idea of a network, would constitute. Envisioned it as a scholarly cooperative with a distributed. Rather, they would be a mental clearing house for the mind, a deepo. So this networking idea was never really explained clearly. He tries to get money for this but technology was crued and the. Changes start to happen in the 60s and 70s, the rise of. Vannevar bush, comes along and is inspired by wells. He proposes the new information storage and retrival machine, did (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) this at the start of world war 2 (cid:1) (cid:1) equiptment was too expensive (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) telecommunications and stuff (cid:1) (standardization)