<div dir="ltr"><div>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:<br><br>"The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism" <br><a href="https://history.stanford.edu/publications/moveable-typewriter-how-chinese-typists-developed-predictive-text-during-height-maoism">https://history.stanford.edu/publications/moveable-typewriter-how-chinese-typists-developed-predictive-text-during-height-maoism</a><br><br></div>David<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:46 AM, M. Hicks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu" target="_blank">mhicks1@iit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Way to go, Tom!</div><div id="m_7281975573463549995AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_7281975573463549995AppleMailSignature">Thanks for sharing, Sarah.</div><div id="m_7281975573463549995AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_7281975573463549995AppleMailSignature">Best,</div><div id="m_7281975573463549995AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_7281975573463549995AppleMailSignature">Marie <br><br><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:13pt">______________________</span><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Marie Hicks, Ph.D.<br>Asst. Professor, History of Technology<br>Illinois Institute of Technology<br>Chicago, IL USA<br><a href="mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu" target="_blank">mhicks1@iit.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.mariehicks.net/" target="_blank">mariehicks.<wbr>net</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/histoftech" target="_blank">@histoftech</a><br><i>Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing</i><br><a href="http://www.programmedinequality.com/" target="_blank">www.programmedinequality.com</a><br></span><div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:21 AM, Sarah T. Roberts <<a href="mailto:sarah.roberts@ucla.edu" target="_blank">sarah.roberts@ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><div>Of potential interest to many. I always appreciate work that decenters the myth of Western (American, typically) primacy in tech. </div><div><br><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chinese-computers/504851/" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/<wbr>technology/archive/2016/11/<wbr>chinese-computers/504851/</a></div><div><br><br><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">---<br><br>S a r a h  T.  R o b e r t s,  P h. D.<br><br>Assistant Professor<br>University of California, Los Angeles<br>Department of Information Studies<br>Graduate School of Education & Information Studies<br><a dir="ltr" href="https://is.gseis.ucla.edu/" target="_blank">https://is.gseis.ucla.edu/</a><br><br>Blogging periodically at<br><a dir="ltr" href="http://illusionofvolition.com/" target="_blank">http://illusionofvolition.com</a></span></div></div></div></div><div><span>______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><br><span>This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org" target="_blank">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/" target="_blank">http://lists.sigcis.org/<wbr>pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org" target="_blank">http://lists.sigcis.org/<wbr>listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.<wbr>org</a></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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