[SIGCIS-Members] Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - The Atlantic

[M. Hicks]

Way to go, Tom!

Thanks for sharing, Sarah.

Best,

Marie 

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Asst. Professor, History of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL USA
mhicks1 at iit.edu | mariehicks.net | @histoftech
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
www.programmedinequality.com


On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:21 AM, Sarah T. Roberts <sarah.roberts at ucla.edu> wrote:

Of potential interest to many. I always appreciate work that decenters the myth of Western (American, typically) primacy in tech. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chinese-computers/504851/


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University of California, Los Angeles
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Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
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