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I found it very interesting to read the stages of the phone and all the technology that it brought about.
Claude Shannon would love twitter...
The less redundancy you have in a message, the harder it is to crack its code. And this also, by extension, had implications for how you might send a message more efficiently. Shannon would often demonstrate that the sender of a message could strafe its vowels and still make it intelligible. To illustrate Shannon's point, David Kahn, a historian of cryptography who wrote extensively on Shannon, used the following example; FCTSSTRNGRTHNFCTN p125
What was striking but almost always overlooked about its invention, Fuller later recalled, was that all three inventors of the device were working in different buildings. "The solar cell just sort of happened," he said. It was not "team research" in the traditional sense, but it was made possible "because the Labs policy dd not require us to get the permission of our bosses to cooperate--at the Laboratories one could go directly to the person who could help." p171
Here's an example of how stuff worked... and it's beautiful. It really makes you appreciate how this setup changed things. If people had to go through all the red tape, where would we be? We make jokes about red tape all the time, but what has it held back?
Interview with Cronkite on page 226 is looking at here and now, even though it took place in the late 60's. Incredible how much we have managed.
And how many of us know where cell phones come from? That's on page 282. Just amazing watching all of this develop over time. I know I keep saying this, but it really is incredible to think about some of these things, to see them develop and take shape into what we take for granted today.
Some technology journalists, notably the writer Nicholas Car, have asked recently whether an increasing reliance on instant communications and internet data is eroding our need, or ability, to think deeply. p342
Just the other day I had been wondering something (which I can't remember now) and challenged myself to find the answer without using the internet to find out where to start. I couldn't do it for a while. It was insane.
That phone calls often crackle or fade or echo is something that never would have been permissible thirty years ago, when perfect transmission and victory over noise were the ultimate goals. p358
Yes, how true this is.
I picked up this book because I was filling in a gap for my dewey decimal challenge. I'd used a random number generator and went to the library to get the book. I saw the title and sort of set it off to the side because I'm not a technically minded person when it comes to reading. I assumed it would be a dry sort of history, but I was wrong. This was a very enjoyable book and I'm glad I found it.
Review will follow.
Claude Shannon would love twitter...
The less redundancy you have in a message, the harder it is to crack its code. And this also, by extension, had implications for how you might send a message more efficiently. Shannon would often demonstrate that the sender of a message could strafe its vowels and still make it intelligible. To illustrate Shannon's point, David Kahn, a historian of cryptography who wrote extensively on Shannon, used the following example; FCTSSTRNGRTHNFCTN p125
What was striking but almost always overlooked about its invention, Fuller later recalled, was that all three inventors of the device were working in different buildings. "The solar cell just sort of happened," he said. It was not "team research" in the traditional sense, but it was made possible "because the Labs policy dd not require us to get the permission of our bosses to cooperate--at the Laboratories one could go directly to the person who could help." p171
Here's an example of how stuff worked... and it's beautiful. It really makes you appreciate how this setup changed things. If people had to go through all the red tape, where would we be? We make jokes about red tape all the time, but what has it held back?
Interview with Cronkite on page 226 is looking at here and now, even though it took place in the late 60's. Incredible how much we have managed.
And how many of us know where cell phones come from? That's on page 282. Just amazing watching all of this develop over time. I know I keep saying this, but it really is incredible to think about some of these things, to see them develop and take shape into what we take for granted today.
Some technology journalists, notably the writer Nicholas Car, have asked recently whether an increasing reliance on instant communications and internet data is eroding our need, or ability, to think deeply. p342
Just the other day I had been wondering something (which I can't remember now) and challenged myself to find the answer without using the internet to find out where to start. I couldn't do it for a while. It was insane.
That phone calls often crackle or fade or echo is something that never would have been permissible thirty years ago, when perfect transmission and victory over noise were the ultimate goals. p358
Yes, how true this is.
I picked up this book because I was filling in a gap for my dewey decimal challenge. I'd used a random number generator and went to the library to get the book. I saw the title and sort of set it off to the side because I'm not a technically minded person when it comes to reading. I assumed it would be a dry sort of history, but I was wrong. This was a very enjoyable book and I'm glad I found it.
Review will follow.
