NATS 1700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Homebrew Computer Club, James Ritty, Herman Hollerith
15 Mar 2017
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Ethics for the info age chapter 1 (1. 1, 1. 2) Some parents purchasing a cellphone for their children to call a family member if there is any emergency, may be implicitly communicating to their children the idea that people in trouble cannot expect help from strangers. Amish people choose which technologies they would like to adopt and which ones they would not like to adopt because they understand that it affects the way people relate to one another. Tech is often adopted to solve problems but can often create problems. Abacus: computing aid in which a person performs arithmetic operations by sliding counters along rods, wires, lines. Pascal created a calculator to easily calculate long column of numbers, but it wasn"t successful in the market. German gottfried leibnez constructed a calculator more sophisticated than pascals; called step. Both weren"t reliable so they weren"t commercially successful. Georg scheutz and his son created the first printing calculator.
