Thanks for these kinds words! I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming CHM conference.
For anyone in the South Bay/Bay Area, and who has interest, I'll be speaking tonight at Adobe for IMUG:
The China i18n Challenge: Western #Fails in Type, Typewriters,
& Computers
http://www.meetup.com/IMUG-Silicon-Valley/events/226641322/
Ever since the mass manufacture of keyboard typewriters began in the United States, companies like Remington and Underwood imagined a day when this new device would conquer the Chinese language in the same way it had practically every living script across the world. It never did.
Ever since the invention and popularization of hot metal printing in the United States and Europe, companies like Linotype and Monotype dreamt of a day when their technologies would conquer the Chinese language, just as they had Arabic, Armenian, Burmese, Devanagari, Hebrew, Korean, and over one hundred other scripts. They never did.
Ever since the advent of personal computing, companies like IBM and others imagined a day when Chinese keyboards would behave "just like ours," even including the familiar QWERTY keyboard. They never did (even though QWERTY is now ubiquitous).
Drawing upon over a decade of research on modern Chinese information technology, Tom Mullaney of Stanford University will reflect upon the vital importance of history and culture in the process of technological internationalization, particularly in China.
Dr. Mullaney is the author of two forthcoming books from MIT Press, The Chinese Typewriter: A Global History of the Information Age, Part I, to be published next year, followed by The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, Part II.
wow, really wish I could attend that!
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:07 AM, M. Hicks <mhicks1@iit.edu> wrote:
And it's probably also worth re-pointing-out that Tom will be one of our keynotes this year (along with Kavita Philip) at the special meeting of SIGCIS being held in March at the Computer History Museum.
See here for more info: http://meetings.sigcis.org/
Additional invited speakers include Safiya Noble (UCLA), Mitali Thakor (Northwestern), and Sreela Sarkar (Santa Clara U).
If you'd like to present at the meeting proposals are due Dec 30th.
Best,
Marie
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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:David
"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
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:46 AM, M. Hicks <mhicks1@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 Its Edge in Computing
www.programmedinequality.com
Of potential interest to many. I always appreciate work that decenters the myth of Western (American, typically) primacy in tech.
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