[SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators

[Lori Emerson]

Hi Evan and all,

I would add George Orwell on the "World Brain" as well as Paul Otlett's
Mundaneum - not explicitly computers but definitely imagining a networked,
world wide information sharing system.

yrs, Lori

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:25 PM Janet Abbate <abbate at vt.edu> wrote:

> Hi Evan,
>
> David Ferro and Eric Swedin’s anthology, "Science Fiction and Computing:
> Essays on Interlinked Domains" (McFarland & Company, 2011) is a series of
> essays about science fiction that affected real-life computing. I don’t
> recall how much coverage there was of pre-1965 SF.
>
> I used to teach Asimov’s short story “The Last Question” (1956), which is
> one of his most widely read, but I don’t know if it influenced actual
> computing.
>
> Janet
>
> Dr. Janet Abbate
> Professor, Science, Technology and Society
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> > On Mar 17, 2022, at 11:23 AM, Evan Koblentz <evank at njit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Good suggestion! Science fiction often tells us about the present,
> sometimes more than the future.
> >
> > ----
> > Evan Koblentz
> >
> > Staff Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
> > Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
> >
> > evank at njit.edu
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> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Adam Hyland <achyland at uw.edu>
> > Date: 3/17/22 11:15 AM (GMT-05:00)
> > To: Jean Graham <jean.graham at stonybrook.edu>
> > Cc: Evan Koblentz <evank at njit.edu>, "members at SIGCIS.org" <
> members at sigcis.org>
> > Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] The Communicators
> >
> > I wouldn't know how to begin writing about this, but Asimov comes
> immediately to mind for pre 1965.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 8:04 AM Jean Graham <jean.graham at stonybrook.edu>
> wrote:
> > Definitely the people who wrote hacker zines and bulletin boards, not
> least because they combined a political point of view with their technical
> writing
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM Evan Koblentz <evank at njit.edu> wrote:
> > I’m interested in a new-to-me research angle: the people who changed
> computing by writing about it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Lovelace comes to mind. So do Vannevar Bush and Edmund Berkeley.
> >
> >
> >
> >       • Who else should I consider from prior to 1965? (I have the
> microcomputer generation covered.)
> >       • Are there existing papers on this subject?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Evan A Koblentz
> > Staff Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
> > Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
> > evan.a.koblentz at njit.edu • (973) 596-3065
> > https://web.njit.edu/~evank
> > @TechnicallyEvan
> >
> >
> >
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