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

[David Golumbia]

I agree, and note that this builds on such as this amazing essay that (I
presume) previews his forthcoming book on the topic, which goes into a lot
more detail than the Atlantic piece:

"The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text
during the Height of Maoism"
https://history.stanford.edu/publications/moveable-typewriter-how-chinese-typists-developed-predictive-text-during-height-maoism

David

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:46 AM, M. Hicks <mhicks1 at iit.edu> wrote:

> Way to go, Tom!
>
> Thanks for sharing, Sarah.
>
> Best,
>
> Marie
>
> ______________________
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> *Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost
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>
> 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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