CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spotify, Photojournalism, Cultural Determinism
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How media became new - www, & tv in the net age: Manovich- how media became new: social drivers, many technologies developing across the world at the same time (writing, tokens, Social drivers (main theme of the course) because they were demanded at the same time. Manovich: the hollerith tabulator opened the door for the adoption of calculating machines by. 7 years to compile and complete then the 1890 census would be too large for humans to process themselves, therefore they needed something to process the numbers for them. A computer was needed to process the data. In 1928, ibm processed its first tabulator (the type iv) with both addition and subtracting capability: the latest tool to account for items, the computers we use today are direct descendants of these tabulators. Essentially peoples personal data, who lives where, what belongs to who.
