On Oct 16, 2015, at 13:46, Andrew Meade McGee <amm5ae@virginia.edu> wrote:

Someone ought to do an updated version of the famous Steinberg New Yorker cartoon Bill linked to, representing today's tech industry and centered on Silicon Valley. 

As Nathan Ensmenger's keynote at the SIGCIS workshop last weekend pointed out, that's an industry aggressively rewriting its past and seeking to pivot the rest of the world's concerns -- economic, policy, social -- around its mobile, app-based worldview. The tech view from Palo Alto circa the 2010s is not that dissimilar to the media industry's view from New York in the 1970s. 

--AMM

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Andrew Meade McGee
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University of Virginia
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:28 PM, McMillan, William W <william.mcmillan@cuaa.edu> wrote:

Evan, you just need to understand geography a little better:

http://www.mappingthenation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Rumsey-Steinberg-New-Yorker-1976.jpg

- Bill

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Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim

NY's Metropolitan Transit Authority -- the people who runs the subways,
trains, and buses -- hired a tour guide for Grand Central Station who's
saying that the terminal's circa-1913 electromechanical signaling system
is "the first electronic computer".

Who was the chief engineer, Shiva Ayyadurai?

This story is very unfortunately in Gothamist -- a very popular NYC
site. I shudder to think how many people now accept it as fact.

http://gothamist.com/2015/10/15/grand_central_computer_video.php#photo-7
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