[SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim

[Andrew Meade McGee]

Someone ought to do an updated version of the famous Steinberg New Yorker
cartoon Bill linked to, representing today's tech industry and centered on
Silicon Valley.

As Nathan Ensmenger's keynote at the SIGCIS workshop last weekend pointed
out, that's an industry aggressively rewriting its past and seeking to
pivot the rest of the world's concerns -- economic, policy, social --
around its mobile, app-based worldview. The tech view from Palo Alto circa
the 2010s is not that dissimilar to the media industry's view from New York
in the 1970s.

--AMM

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Andrew Meade McGee
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:28 PM, McMillan, William W <
william.mcmillan at cuaa.edu> wrote:

> Evan, you just need to understand geography a little better:
>
>
> http://www.mappingthenation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Rumsey-Steinberg-New-Yorker-1976.jpg
>
> - Bill
>
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> Koblentz [evan at snarc.net]
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> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim
>
> NY's Metropolitan Transit Authority -- the people who runs the subways,
> trains, and buses -- hired a tour guide for Grand Central Station who's
> saying that the terminal's circa-1913 electromechanical signaling system
> is "the first electronic computer".
>
> Who was the chief engineer, Shiva Ayyadurai?
>
> This story is very unfortunately in Gothamist -- a very popular NYC
> site. I shudder to think how many people now accept it as fact.
>
> http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php#photo-7
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