This is indeed the type we're seeking. This one is "new" as you say, 2014, example is Tesla's building between HP and XeroxPARC There were indeed some of these from 1980s; wish I had one now From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Trevor Croker <tcroker@vt.edu> Date: Monday, October 19, 2015 10:38 AM To: Cary Gray <cary.gray@wheaton.edu> Cc: "members@lists.sigcis.org" <members@lists.sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Oy! Another crazy computer history claim Andrew, This might be the type of image that you are looking for. The artist Kirby Scudder did an overview of Palo Alto using Steinberg's style in 2014. Blog post on the illustration. <http://kirbyscudder.com/illustration/posters/palo-alto/> The poster itself (not sure if there is a higher resolution out there) <https://kirbyscudder.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/smallposter.jpg> . Best, Trevor On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Cary Gray <cary.gray@wheaton.edu> wrote:
The Stanford Bookstore sold a poster along these lines when I was a grad student in the 1980s. My recollections are that the legend was ³Stanford: A View of the World², and that Silicon Valley was one of the small foreground features at the right edge. That would be a much larger feature if drawn today, and Sand Hill Road would now appear on the left margin.
(A quick search for an image doesn¹t turn it upprobably because of copyright issues. I did find links to an artist selling something with a similar idea, but definitely not the poster I recall.)
Cary Gray
On Oct 16, 2015, at 3:46 PM, 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.
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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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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.
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