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2008, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2004
When the Annals of the History of Computing was first established 25 years ago, it assumed for itself an ambitious agenda: by publishing "scholarly papers and anecdotal notes, rigorously researched material and controversial remembrances," it would serve as a "living history" of the computer revolution's unprecedented scientific and technological accomplishments. If in practice, its contributions were more often first-hand practitioner accounts rather than scholarly treatises, more often nutsand-bolts descriptions of specific machines and developments rather than richly contextual histories, this was entirely understandable. The field was new, its full scope and boundaries were as yet undefined, and it had not yet captured the attention of the larger scholarly community.
What other political, social, and existential changes the age of the computer will also bring we do not know. What seems certain, however, is that the problem of technological determinism-that is, of the impact of machines on historywill remain germane until there is forged a degree of public control over technology far greater than anything that now exists.
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SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory: The Origins of Computerization Movements Alice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington 812.855-5389 [email protected] Abstract Rob Kling's intellectual ...
Preprints zur Kulturgeschichte der Technik, 2019
The historicization of the computer in the second half of the 20th century can be understood as the effect of the inevitable changes in both its technological and narrative development. What interests us is how past futures and therefore history were stabilized. The development, operation, and implementation of machines and programs gave rise to a historicity of the field of computing. Whenever actors have been grouped into communities – for example, into industrial and academic developer communities – new orderings have been constructed historically. Such orderings depend on the ability to refer to archival and published documents and to develop new narratives based on them. Professional historians are particularly at home in these waters – and nevertheless can disappear into the whirlpool of digital prehistory. Toward the end of the 1980s, the first critical review of the literature on the history of computers thus offered several programmatic suggestions. It is one of the peculiar coincidences of history that the future should rear its head again just when the history of computers was flourishing as a result of massive methodological and conceptual input. The emergence of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, which caught historians totally by surprise, led to an ahistorical, anthropological, aesthetic-medial approach to digitization. The program for investigating the prehistory of the digital age was rewritten in favor of explaining the development of communication networks. Computer systems and their concepts dropped out of history. This poses a problem for the history of computers, insofar as the success of the history of technology is tied to the stability of its objects. It seems more promising to us to not attribute the problem to the object called computer or to the “disciplinary” field, but rather to focus entirely on substantive issues. An issue-oriented technological history of the 21st century should be able to do this by treating the history of computers as a refreshing source of productive friction.
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... into the world with their possibilities well-defined, rather they come into existing systems, and ... take off of a new technology; they acted as a 'breeding space' which helped ... or less homogeneous, although within them, situations of competition often existed between protagonists of ...
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The history of information technology is not the history of how wires got into boxes. Technological developments are intertwined in the social fabric, and their story includes the direct experience of individuals and the impacts felt by communities. Computers were once thought to be relevant only to specialists, but people today are more aware of the reach of computers into their lives. Similarly, the history of computing has traditionally been the focus of specialists in technology, but a greater variety of scholarly researchers is now studying archival collections about computing. The Social Issues in Computing Collection at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute seeks to collect a wider array of perspectives on the industry and even to change the way people think about computing and archives.
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