Content tagged with “tech-history” under “My Library”

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The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 17, 2024
Words
393

“I didn’t quite know what to do with this book. I think it was recommended to me by someone. It’s a collection of essays (?) about invention, innovation, and engineering. I read a half-dozen of them before bailing out. It was weird – I couldn’t figure out any thematic consistency to them. Then I…”

From Memex to Hypertext
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
November 20, 2015
Words
237

“This is really a collection of writings, published elsewhere, about Vannevar Bush’s seminal 1945 essay ‘How We May Think,’ and the idea of the Memex which he proposed. I suspect everyone who reads this book will enjoy it, because you have to be pretty interested in Bush to even want to read this….”

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
February 25, 2019
Words
152

“This is a fun book, but I take exception with the first half of the title – this is not ‘how the internet happened,’ which explains the qualifier ‘from Netscape to the iPhone.’ This is really about 13 years in the history of the web, mainly. ‘The Internet’ dates to the 50s or the 60s, but this is a…”

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
January 19, 2015
Words
209

“I love Steven Johnson. ‘Where Good Ideas Come From’ is one of my favorite books. This book looked back at 5-6 ‘inventions’ that remarkably changed the modern world. I quote ‘inventions’ because these things are really, really basic. So, things like ‘cold’ (meaning, the ability to make things…”

A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 29, 2019
Words
253

“I didn’t finish this book. I got through 3-4 chapters, then skimmed the rest. I couldn’t figure out what it wanted to be. The author compared to to Howard Zinn’s book of similar name, but I couldn’t see it. The book seemed to be very specific vignettes about the early age of computing in the 60s….”