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What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Animation)
See also my interview with Nicholas Carr about his book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Posted in Internet, Social Impact, World Wide Web
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The Digital Revolution (Infographic)
Posted in Big Data, Data growth, Digitization, Infographics
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Launching a Japanese Giant
Today in 1946, more than twenty members of the Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute, founded by Masaru Ibuka in the previous year, attended the inauguration ceremony which officially established the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. Ibuka’s father-in-law, Tamon Maeda was appointed president of the … Continue reading
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The Day Software Started to Eat the World
Today in 1949, the Electronic Delayed Storage Automatic Computer (EDSAC), the first practical stored-program computer, ran its first program and performed its first calculation. “… a thin ribbon of paper containing the program [to print a table of the squares of the … Continue reading
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World Press Freedom Day
Twenty years ago today, May 3rd was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as World Press Freedom Day, “a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their … Continue reading
The Victorian World Wide Web
Today in 1851, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations or The Great Exhibition, opened in London. It was the first in a series of World’s Fair exhibitions continuing to the present day. Burton Benedict writes in The Anthropology of World’s Fairs, … Continue reading
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The Television of the Future
Today in 1939, the 1939 New York World’s Fair, “Building the World of Tomorrow,” had its grand opening, with 206,000 people in attendance. The April 30 date coincided with the 150th anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration as President in New York City. … Continue reading
Son of the Souls of a New Machine
Today in 1980, Data General (DG) introduced the Eclipse MV/8000 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Known internally as Project Eagle, the 2-year development of the 32-bit “super-minicomputer,” the engineers working on it, and the parallel (and eventually, … Continue reading
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iTunes Launched
Today in 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store. The store sold more than 1 million tracks in its first five days and became the biggest music vendor in the U.S. five years later. Here are iTunes stats, … Continue reading
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