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Welcome to Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University

http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html 

Week 1

 

 

Here's this page - http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/w/page/23323461/InfoTechSoc1 - and the front page with course material: http://socinfotech.pbworks.com/FrontPage.

 

 

In this class we'll focus on how the information technology revolution developed, especially vis-a-vis long time Berkeley Professor Manuel Castells' research on the Network Society, as well as the Network Society - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Network_Society - and Internet Studies -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Internet_Studies - wiki subject pages at World University and Shcool.

 

 

 

The Information Technology Revolution - History and Geography - Scott MacLeod 

 

So this is a course on Information Technology and Society.

 

In it, we'll focus first on the Information Technology Revolution

 

We'll examine the following questions

 

What is Information Technology?

 

What came about as a consequence of its development?

 

Who did it?

 

We'll examine, at first, its history (excluding a history of the Internet).

 

We'll also look at questions of Geography.

 

And lastly, we'll ask what has been the the process of diffision into the economy and society.

 

We'll begin with the historical development as it leads into broader societal and economic trends.

 

I'm also going to characterize the origins of the Information Technology revolution in a kind of progressive way.

 

I draw on a lot on long time Berkeley Professor Manuel Castells's research on the Network Society, as well as my own research.

 

So what is technology?

 

The definition for this course that I use is that it's the use of scientific knowledge to specify ways of doing things in a reproducible manner.

 

And developments of these kinds change gradually over time, but changes that occur cluster together to form a system reinforcing each other.

 

Replicability is key to technological processes.

 

So, for example, in the late 18th century, the industrial revolution then took shape around technologies to generate and distribute energy / power

 

And many other discoveries occurred concurrently, including chemical, mechanical, etc.

 

But technolgoical revolutions cluster around a major theme.

 

And some scholars maintain that there were actual two industrial revolutions.

 

The first in the late 18th century focusing on energy and power, and the second in the late 19th cetnury focusing on electricity.

 

And this one took shape primarily in the U.S. and in Germany.

 

And the electricity reovlution linked with the chemical revolution

 

These linkages are critical to undrestanding ways we do things.

 

The informaiton technology revolution started in the begining of the 20th century.

 

With the invention of the teleophone, as early as 1876

 

And the radio by Marconi in 1898

 

And the vacuum tube by de Forest in 1906

 

And vacuum tubes in particular are key here, because they led to transistors

 

(Alfred Chandler is an excellent resource here - "Nation of Information.")

 

Revolutions such as these have long precedents, especially as a system clustering technologies together.

 

When new technogologies are developed, they cluster together to create a revolution.

 

And by the mid 1970s, another revolution was discernable with information technology.

 

And this system has 2 key features.

 

The first is that its effects on the economy and society are PERVASIVE.

 

The paradigm infuses into the entire realm of society and economy

 

and allows one to do things in specific ways that you couldn't do before, with effects through the entire social structure.

 

And the 2nd thing that occurs is that fundamental change is at the core of generating and changing information.

 

So this information reovlution is about Information.

 

And it derives from previous industiral revolutions

 

And this new paradigm is based on three technologies

 

1) Microelectronics

 

2) Computers

 

3) Telecommuncations

 

and it's also based on

 

4) Genetic engineering - which is the decoding, recoding and reprogramming of information codes of living matter.

 

Information Technologies:

 

Microelectronics is the foundation of the information revoltuion.

 

And this can be traced back to the vacuum tube (electronics)

 

The vacuum tube allows for a series of impulses

 

to be processed in a binary mode of amplification and interruption.

 

Vaccum tubes gave rise to the transistor, and micro chips ahve millions of transistors

 

What occurs in the information technology revolution is the development of INTEGRATION

 

where with chips, reserachers squeezed more and more circuits into tinier spaces.

 

In 1947, the transistor was invented at Bell Labs.

 

by Shockley, Bardeen and others.

 

I draw my definition by Harvey Brooks, who draws his from Daniel Bell.

 

technologies allow people to manipulate information through replication, in part.

 

And they also affect consumption.

 

And the definition I use informs how microelectronics, computers and telecommunications work.

 

But information technologies are here to stay and affecting every aspect of our lives, and they began as part of a government arrangement.

 

Microelectronics were in the public domain

 

And Shockley et al, who developed the transistor through Bell Labs, were workin g through an arrangement with the government.

 

Transistors were signficant because they were much smaller than the vacuum tube.

 

And to be reliable and fast, transistors needed to be conductive, but not too conductive :)

 

And it wasn't so easy at teh time to find these materials,

 

until Gordon Ted at Texas Instruments in Dallas started working with Silicon.

 

And the material was there!

 

And this shifted the ability to process infomration signficantly.

 

The next step:

 

Once people started to produce transistors on silicon material, inventions followed pretty rapidly.

 

In 1957, on the integrated circuit, which is a chip

 

you cut into - programmable chips were simultaneously and indpednely invented.

 

By Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments

 

and Bob Noyce in Silicon Valley with Intel.

 

And the integrated circuit - a chip you cut into to program

 

is the founding story of the microelectrnoics industry.

 

And it's comparable in signficance with the invention of electricity and the engine.

 

And now the integrated circuit is implanted everywhere.

 

The MILITARY

[16:46]  You: The military was very interested.

[16:46]  Jagger Valeeva is Online

[16:46]  You: After the inventio of the chip (the integrated circuit)

[16:46]  Brian Whiteberry is Offline

[16:46]  You: between 1959 and 1962, the first round of chips were developed.

[16:47]  You: And the price of semiconductors fell by 85% in 3 years.

[16:47]  You: Compare that with cotton in the early 19th century, where

[16:48]  You: an 85% drop took 70 years.

[16:48]  You: And production of integrated circuits from 1959-69

[16:48]  Veeyawn Spoonhammer is Online

[16:48]  You: increased by a facotr of 20

[16:48]  You: and 50% of these went tot he military.

[16:48]  You: 1971 was a major benchmark

[16:49]  You: with the invention of the microprocessor.

[16:49]  You: The microprocessor is a computer in a chip, which Ted Hoff at INtel invented.

[16:50]  You: And this invention led to computers becoming installed everywhere

[16:50]  Venla Hutchence is Offline

[16:50]  You: Ted Hoff (at Sharp, sorry, not INtel)

[16:50]  You: wanted to make a more reliable and cheaper calculator - and this led to this computer in a chip

[16:51]  You: So more and more infomraiton power became packed into smaller devices.

[16:51]  You: this is called Integration capacity.

[16:51]  You: Researchers were trying to see how many lines they could imprint on a chip.

[16:51]  You: They used a process called photolithography

[16:51]  You: - printing with images.

[16:52]  You: Chemicals etch out drawings and overlayerd drawings.

[16:52]  You: They were also asking how fast they could do this.

[16:52]  You: 1 micron = 1 millionth of a meter

[16:52]  Jon Seattle is Offline

[16:53]  You: And the 1st integrated circuits in 1971 had circuits 6.5 microns

[16:53]  You: by 1995, they were .35 microns

[16:53]  You: and by 2000 they were .18 microns

[16:53]  You: Very fast miniaturiazation

[16:54]  You: Memory capacity also increased dramatically.

[16:54]  You: It's measured in bits - 1 megabit = a million bits

[16:54]  Brian Whiteberry is Online

[16:54]  You: And in 1971 memory processed 1024 bits

[16:55]  You: and in 2000 it increased by 1 million times

[16:55]  You: And these developments led to Gordon Moore's law - at Intel

[16:56]  You: He was referring to speed, and made a guess verified by experience

[16:56]  You: That the capacity of chips was doubling and will dobule every 18 months, as the price drops by 50%

[16:57]  You: And now the process is accelerating, and new exotic materials are being used, so it's difficult to extrpolate Gordon Moore's law

[16:57]  You: So the microelectronic revolution is the founding story of theis information technology revolution.

[16:58]  You: COMPTUERS Computers came from an attempt to build fast mechanical calculations

[16:58]  SamBivalent Spork is Online

[16:58]  You: And Charles Babbage in the late 19th century was one of the first inventors of these devices.

[16:59]  You: But let's pause here for a few minutes.

[16:59]  You: and when we come back, we can ask questions, before examining the origins of the computer.

[16:59]  Bruce Flyer: your vitual keyboard is getting too hot

[16:59]  You: Let's come back in around 7 minutes.

[17:00]  Andromeda Mesmer: Break time 7 minutes.

[17:00]  You: It would be nice for everyone to have voice - :)

[17:00]  Meryl Villota is Offline

[17:02]  Diego Ibanez is Offline

[17:03]  Andy Abrahamson is Offline

[17:08]  You: HI

[17:08]  You: Questions thus far?

[17:08]  Bruce Flyer: cheese

[17:09]  Bruce Flyer: so small size increase speed and makes the chip run cooler?

[17:09]  You: heat was a problem, and the more bits that are processed, the hotter the chip gets

[17:10]  Krysss Galatea is Online

[17:10]  You: and this problem was solved in number of ways, but that the microchip was developed, and that its integration capacity increased dramatically is amazing, and has led to ongoing innovation.

[17:10]  You: COMPUTER

[17:11]  You: WWII calculators - the British Collosus and in Germany the Z3

[17:11]  You: were the precursor to the computer

[17:11]  Krysss Galatea is Offline

[17:11]  You: And when British labs cooperated, a lot of innvoations occurred.

[17:12]  You: British Labs set up a program at MIT

[17:12]  You: And MITs computing technology was the first to become operational.

[17:13]  You: In 1947, ENIAC - electronic, numberic, integrated,

[17:13]  You: and Calculator

[17:13]  Xirconnia Morphett is Offline

[17:14]  You: was invented by Machly and Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania.

[17:14]  You: It had 18000 vacuum tubes, and was 18 feet tall.

[17:14]  You: The first operational computer was the UNIVAC 1

[17:14]  Luna Bliss is Offline

[17:14]  You: in 195a by the Remington Corporation - and the US census was done on it.

[17:15]  You: All of these were transformed by transistors, which increased spped and diminshed size

[17:15]  You: And in 1964, the IBM 360 took shape.

[17:15]  Jagger Valeeva is Offline

[17:15]  Chinadoll Lulu is Offline

[17:16]  You: They created a wall of computing, and shaped a hierarchy of computing

[17:16]  You: with supercomputers

[17:16]  You: Mini computers

[17:16]  You: Main frames (the backup of the mini)

[17:16]  You: And terminals (dumb access to the MIni)

[17:16]  You: And supercomputers were used for war and weather.

[17:17]  You: And that was computing for a long time.

[17:17]  You: And this changed in 1971 with the development of the microcomputer.

[17:17]  You: And soon after, the personal computer developed.

[17:18]  You: Ed Roberts in 1974 in Albuquerque - counterculturally oriented - had a small consulting firm

[17:18]  You: And they developed Altair (named after a favorite dog character in Star Trek)

[17:18]  You: and this was published in Popular Mechanics.

[17:19]  You: The SF Homebrew Comptuer Club, including Job, Wozniak and Gates all furthered the personal computer (very simple at the time) in many ways.

[17:20]  You: In1976, working in a garage, Jobs and Wozniak borrowed $500 initially from Mike Marcula, and then more money to start Apple Inc.

[17:20]  You: (later it was a 91,000 loan).

[17:21]  You: And in 1981 IBM decided to enter the market with a device called the PC

[17:21]  You: They had a genius strategy

[17:22]  You: To ensure maximum techological development, they opened these technologies,and diverged from Apple

[17:22]  You: From then on it was Apple vs the clones

[17:22]  You: And Apple against the world.

[17:23]  You: Apple didnt' think anyone could produce cheaper, bigger and better personal computers.

[17:23]  You: IBM is now a service company, which is an interesting story in itself.

[17:23]  You: The other extraordinary story is in SOFTWARE

[17:24]  You: Apple made /commissioned its own software.

[17:24]  Patrio Graysmark is Online

[17:24]  You: PCs didn't have software, until a Harvard dropout, Gates, and his high school friend, paul Allen, who were hackers

[17:25]  You: took Altair and set up a software company in Albuquerque

[17:25]  You: and later moved to Seattle, because Gates' parents were there.

[17:25]  You: They had a key commercial strategy:

[17:25]  You: to sell the OS to the biggest player, IBM.

[17:26]  You: they convinced IBM to buy their Operating System

[17:26]  You: But there was one problem - they didn't have an Operating System

[17:26]  Andromeda Mesmer: hardware, software, and vapourware.

[17:27]  You: They found a Seattle company with as OS, and bought it from Tim Patterson at Qdos, I think, for $50,000, and sold it to IBM

[17:27]  You: IBM retained :) the machine royalites, nad MS got the software royalities.

[17:27]  You: In addition, Microsoft (MS) made it proprietary

[17:28]  You: For MS, it was a business deal.

[17:28]  You: IBM hadn't done their homework, to know that MS didn't have an operating system.

[17:29]  You: And MS because they retained the rights to the kernel of the operating system could sell to every other pc clone maker!

[17:29]  Arawn Spitteler is Offline

[17:29]  You: Overall, the average cost of processing infromation fell $75 / million operations to 100th of 1 cent / million operations

[17:30]  You: Comptures kept getting faster and cheaper.

[17:30]  You: The 3rd major technology in the equation was telecommunication.

[17:30]  You: that emerged in the revolution in the late 1960s

[17:31]  You: And this involved 1) node technologeis - swithers and routers

[17:31]  You: how inforamtion is sent

[17:31]  You: By the mid 1930s - there were switchers and routers

[17:31]  You: Hi Neon

[17:31]  Neon Clift: hi aphilo

[17:32]  You: And by 1969 these had become digital

[17:32]  You: And by the mid 1970s, there were digital switchers, not people.

[17:32]  You: And 2) TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGES

[17:32]  You: and the mian questions here were how, and through what materials.

[17:33]  You: New materials, new cable, coaxial and digital, and later fiberoptic

[17:33]  You: In 1956, the 1st trasnatlantic calbe was laid.

[17:34]  You: IN 1956, 5 circuits were contained in compressed buoys

[17:34]  You: By 1985, 85,000 circuits were contained in these buoys.

[17:34]  You: Then the use of staellite communications significantly increased data transmisison capacity.

[17:35]  You: So, the speed of technolgoical revolution is immense!

[17:35]  You: Cellular technologies started a long time ago.

[17:35]  You: Oly when chips could be incorporated, did the explosion in cell phones increase.

[17:36]  You: The US of all developed contries is a little backward with cell phone, due to the excessive deregulation and incomipatibility of standards

[17:37]  You: So the convergence of microelectronics, compouters, and telecommunications

[17:37]  You: represented by the Internet, which is a glboal system of Networks,

[17:37]  You: has given rise to an entire world in a modular system

[17:38]  You: THe Internet was first designed in 1969, by ARPA, and was fundamentally linked by scientists in major reserach industires.

[17:38]  You: It was not military research.

[17:38]  You: It was the work of computer scientiests.

[17:38]  matrix05 Infinity is Offline

[17:38]  You: In 1972 it became operational.

[17:38]  Champler Snook is Offline

[17:38]  You: IN 1995 it was privatized.

[17:38]  You: And it's a key example of convergence.

[17:40]  You: So before going on with the genetic engineering revolution and how it articulates with other information technologies

[17:40]  You: are there any questions.

[17:40]  You: ?

[17:41]  You: And what convergences particularly interest you looking ahead?

[17:41]  Bruce Flyer: could there be a new "Bill Gates" today and what would be his/her contribution?

[17:41]  Neon Clift: why is it taking so long for video to achieve good thruput

[17:42]  Bruce Flyer: there are so many variables on the client side to make video difficult

[17:42]  You: There are lots of key innovations in the past few decades. I think Tim Berners Lee writing of http and html in 1989, then posting it to a bulletin board system, which graduate students then disseminated

[17:43]  You: and which gave rise to the World Wide Web is a very far reaching near-singlehanded innovation that

[17:43]  You: changed the world.

[17:44]  You: I don't know if the opportunity to influence an operating system at a signficant time in the development of a revolution will occur again or not.

[17:44]  Boston Hutchinson: Gates made a lot of money, but the innovations mostly originated elsewhere.

[17:44]  You: Perhaps with virtual worlds, soemthing similar with take shape.

[17:44]  Boston Hutchinson: I bet there will be other, equally disruptive technologies

[17:44]  You: Yes, Boston . . and he bought the operating system that he then resold. He's more of a business man.

[17:45]  You: Perhaps, but as ubiquitous?

[17:45]  Boston Hutchinson: And borrowed windows from Apple who borrowed it from Xerox...

[17:45]  You: It's the unthought-of ones that we can't yet see that are so interesting.

[17:45]  Bruce Flyer: i guess for him it is not so much fun any more

[17:45]  You: Yes.

[17:46]  You: Windows is still the main platform, but it isn't developing very much.

[17:46]  Andromeda Mesmer: If the 3D duplicator gets going, that would be pretty disruptive to existing businesses -- this is now working in practice -- make copies of small items.

[17:46]  You: I'd like to see little holographic avatars that we cold converse with.

[17:46]  Boston Hutchinson: I expect that virtual worlds will evolve into an innovation as big as PCs

[17:46]  Bruce Flyer: is it that what we have today is so complex it is difficult to build upon?

[17:46]  You: Yes, Andromeda that would create a lot of interesting possibilities.

[17:47]  Neon Clift: why hasnt video conferencing and video telephone caught on

[17:47]  You: A recent remarkable hardware innovation is the XO - or one laptop per child

[17:48]  Boston Hutchinson: I stared at kepunch machines for years, then teletypes, then black and white screens for years before color then color without windows, etc. It doesn't seem to me that it evolved very fast.

[17:48]  You: with dramatic implicaitons, if many children in the developing world have access to the internet, it may have far-reaching implications for democracy, even.

[17:48]  Andromeda Mesmer: And with better images on screens as well as holographs -- outsourcing could continue into other areas -- Charlie Stross has, in his novel, HALTING STATE, taxicabs in Scotland being driven by people actually in Pakistan.

[17:48]  Bruce Flyer: Sun is doing some work with "porta-person" -- kind of an avatar in the real world

[17:48]  Boston Hutchinson: Why cant the taxis drive themselves?

[17:49]  Cindy Ecksol: :-)

[17:49]  Neon Clift: yea that seems odd

[17:49]  You: What makes it into our hands, and what transforms technologies are very different.

[17:49]  Bruce Flyer: GM working on cars that drive themselves V2V

[17:49]  Andromeda Mesmer: It has to be an actual person -- I suppose that if it is a program, the programmer could be sued if something goes wrong.

[17:50]  Patrio Graysmark is Offline

[17:50]  Andromeda Mesmer: Lawsuits are why playgrounds look a lot different now, and why small plane makers are in trouble.

[17:50]  You: Here are a series of Library of Congress talks

[17:50]  You: http://www.c-span.org/congress/digitalfuture.asp

[17:50]  Boston Hutchinson: For now, yes, but I hope that by the time I'm 90, I'll be able to get use my car without driving. The computer might be safer

[17:51]  You: All are interesting, but the last one by Neil Gershenfeld at the Media lab at MIT is fascinating.

[17:51]  Boston Hutchinson: If spaceships can fly themselves, in time, cars will be able to drive themselves

[17:51]  You: IN it he characterizes and shows how code can write code

[17:52]  Andromeda Mesmer: Well, this book by Charlie Stross is only 12 years in the future.

[17:52]  You: He also shows a prototype of a device that would allow us to envision any tool we might want and then fabricate it.

[17:52]  Cindy Ecksol: code writing code -- old idea. cf Robert Heinlein "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"

[17:52]  Andromeda Mesmer: Quantum computers have arrived ...

[17:52]  You: And he also characterizes Internet 0, where more and more devices in our lives have ip - internet protocol addresses -

[17:53]  You: Gershenfeld is also a very good lecturer.

[17:53]  Bruce Flyer: Andromeda, are they being used for anything real yet?

[17:53]  Andromeda Mesmer: No, don't think so.

[17:53]  You: What role will they play, Andromeda, in computing?

[17:53]  Cindy Ecksol: from what I'vebeen hearing the CES in Los Vegas this week is just rife with networked devices from toasters to heating systems to phones to.....you name it

[17:54]  Bruce Flyer: i don't think i would want to be in a car controlled by a quantum computer yet

[17:54]  Bruce Flyer: i got there and i didn't get there

[17:54]  You: Gershenfeld gave that talk in 2004, I think. Are all these device, Cindy, incorproating IP addresses?

[17:54]  Andromeda Mesmer: LOL

[17:54]  Cindy Ecksol: some yes, but many are bluetooth

[17:55]  Boston Hutchinson: How about a quantum car controlled by a conventional computer?

[17:55]  Cindy Ecksol: that's kind of "post-ip"

[17:55]  Geda Hax: sorry Ap, I got run .....thanks and a great 2008 for all of you , bye guys ...see you next week .

[17:55]  You: So I will post these trancripts to the web at this address:

[17:55]  You: http://socinfotech.pbwiki.com

[17:55]  Bruce Flyer: i would i recognize a quantum car?

[17:55]  You: Bye Geda.

[17:56]  Boston Hutchinson: :)

[17:56]  Andromeda Mesmer: A quantum car ... maybe you can tell by the flickering -- on/off ?

[17:56]  Boston Hutchinson: Maybe it would be a teleporter

[17:56]  Bruce Flyer: it seems like teleporting might be possible with a quantum computer, but perhaps we are getting too far off topic (?)

[17:56]  Boston Hutchinson: Yes, just kidding!

[17:57]  Bruce Flyer: neat that we come to the same idea -- teleporting

[17:57]  You: So, what microelectronics, computing and telecommunications give rise to is the focus of this course.

[17:57]  You: And we'll explore some of these developments in detail over the next few months.

[17:58]  You: Please feel free to invite friends.

[17:58]  You: Are there any other questions, before we close?

[17:58]  Bruce Flyer: should we read something for next week?

[17:59]  Andromeda Mesmer: Will you be talking a little about innovations in biology and medicine due to computers and networking?

[17:59]  You: Yes, please read this:

[17:59]  You: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con0.htm

[17:59]  Bruce Flyer: tks

[17:59]  Cindy Ecksol: thanks, aphilo

[17:59]  You: And what's on the syllabus.

[18:00]  Boston Hutchinson: the link didn't work

[18:00]  You: Next week, I'll talk specifically about those, briefly.

[18:00]  You: I'm curious to know how much time people have for reading?

[18:01]  Cindy Ecksol: maybe an hour...

[18:01]  Bruce Flyer: yes

[18:01]  Andromeda Mesmer: Reading every day -- 2 hours --

[18:01]  You: I have a number of texts which will add a lot to this course

[18:02]  You: Great, let's start with what's on the syllabus, and next week I'll give you more reading.

[18:02]  Bruce Flyer: could be possibly be a collective "brain" as a group project? www.thebrain.com

[18:02]  Cindy Ecksol: hey, I like that!!

[18:02]  You: I'll look at it.

[18:02]  You: There's a group for this class

[18:03]  You: It's Soc & Info Tech Aphilo on Berkman in SL groups

[18:03]  Bruce Flyer: i don't know if there is any "wikibrain" available yet

[18:04]  You: I think most of you are on it, but please add your names Claryssa and Neon, if you like.

[18:04]  You: Can you let us know next week, Bruce?

[18:04]  Joe Petrel is Online

[18:04]  Bruce Flyer: i will try.

[18:04]  You: Thanks :)

[18:05]  Joe Petrel is Offline

[18:05]  Bruce Flyer: i am better with ideas than with delivery :-)

[18:05]  You: So, I'm getting ready for a trip tomorrow. I'll post this transcript, and see you next week.

[18:05]  You: :)

[18:05]  Rain Ninetails: :)

[18:05]  Bruce Flyer: good night all

[18:05]  You: Hello Lilypad

[18:05]  Boston Hutchinson: Thanks, Aphilo

[18:05]  Bruce Flyer is Offline

[18:05]  You: Good night everyone.

[18:06]  You: You're welcome.

[18:06]  Andromeda Mesmer: Good night, Aphilo

[18:06]  You: Good night, Andromeda

[18:06]  Lilypad Frog: hi guys

[18:06]  Claryssa Schmidt: bye and thanks

[18:06]  Cindy Ecksol: aphilo, I just realized I forgot to drop that landmark on you for the chat feeder....

[18:07]  Cindy Ecksol: here you go...

[18:07]  Cindy Ecksol gave you ICT Library: Information Communi, Info Island (46, 221, 33).

[18:07]  You: Thanks, Cindy!

[18:08]  Cindy Ecksol: you'll need to go inside and look for the place where they have an archive of free scripts. there are two chat feeders in the "machine" on the far right. I like the one that says "Serial Chat Feeder HUD v2.1" Very easy to set up and use

[18:08]  SamBivalent Spork is Offline

[18:09]  Claryssa Schmidt is Offline

[18:09]  You: ok

[18:09]  You: thanks.

[18:10]  Lilypad Frog: are you guys here with the harvard class?

[18:10]  Geda Hax is Offline

[18:11]  You: Yes, this is a class on Society and Information Technology

[18:11]  You: Here's the course wiki -

[18:11]  Lilypad Frog: right

[18:11]  You: http://socinfotech.pbwiki.com

[18:11]  Lilypad Frog: I was here with bergman a while back

[18:11]  Lilypad Frog: during a lecture

[18:11]  Lilypad Frog: thanks for the info

[18:11]  You: (while this is Berkman Island at Harvard, I'm not on the Harvard faculty).

[18:12]  You: np

[18:12]  Lilypad Frog: cheers

[18:12]  You: We meet every Wednesday from 4-6SLT

 

 

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