I’m really looking forward to our discussions on the telegraph and Morse code this week. My existing knowledge of this technology is limited, as I haven’t spend much time studying the period in which it was created. I had no real understanding of how it all works before I watched the videos on Morse code. […]
Thoughts on Previous Assignments (and Old Timeline)
Even just glancing through the past assignments for this course, I could tell that the material we are going to cover offers many fun and unique opportunities to present what we learn over the semester. One of the assignments that caught my attention was live Tweeting past historical events. In high school, I did a […]
The Information Age According to Winston and Kline
The perspectives on the history of the Information Age offered by Winston and Kline differ largely because Winston puts the start of the Information Age back in the 1800’s with the telegraph, whereas Kline argues that the 1940’s and 50’s groundbreaking theory that what drives machines can also explain what drives humans “set the intellectual […]
Pictures of Important Figures and Literature





