Chapter 1: Catalysts for Change
[A Brief History of Computing]
The Amish"The Plain Way in the Mainstream: Amish Flock to Small Businesses”
History of Computing (Information Technology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI
The development of the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tmisa//biblios/hist_computing.html
This is an excellent bibliography on the history of computing compiled by Professor Tom Misa of the University of Minnesota.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
Vannevar Bush's groundbreaking article, "As We May Think," that foreshadowed the concept of hypertext.
New Technology
Some Important People in Information Technology
Other Important Figures in Electronic Communication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Some Important Companies in Information Technology
Googlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Related Developments in Neurologyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/science/14neuron.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Nicholas%20wade,%20decoding%20the%20human%20brain,%20with%20help%20from%20a%20fly&st=cse "Decoding the Human Brain, With Help From a Fly": "Taiwanese researchers have managed to bar code some 16,000 of the 100,000 neurons in a fruit fly's brain and to reconstruct the brain's wiring map. In terms similar to those that define computers, the team describes the general architecture of the fly's brain as composed of 41 local processing units, 58 tracts that link the units to other parts of the brain, and six hubs. Biologists see this atlas ofthe fly brain as a first step toward understanding the human brain."
Michio Kaku’s Vision of the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0nkk1to_o
Michio Kaku's vision of the world in 2030rticle
“How Driverless Cars Will Interact With People”
Driverless Cars
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/technology/how-driverless-cars-may-interact-with-people.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-3&action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
"How Driverless Cars Will Interact With People"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/technology/self-driving-cars-guidelines.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
“U.S. Signals Backing for Self-Driving Cars”
[A Brief History of Computing]
The Amish"The Plain Way in the Mainstream: Amish Flock to Small Businesses”
History of Computing (Information Technology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI
The development of the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tmisa//biblios/hist_computing.html
This is an excellent bibliography on the history of computing compiled by Professor Tom Misa of the University of Minnesota.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
Vannevar Bush's groundbreaking article, "As We May Think," that foreshadowed the concept of hypertext.
New Technology
- http://cleantechnica.com/
- http://www.adafruit.com/
- http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/and-were-off-twin-cities-get-first-docsis-3-0-deployment/ttp://www.ladyada.net/make/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/technology/internet/24phone.html
- http://www.ponoko.com/
- http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/?WT.mc_id=0806_083
- “When Laptops Go Light”: “The popularity of netbooks is real.”
- "Computer Makers Prepare to Stake Bigger Claim in Phones”: “Emboldened by Apple’s success with its iPhone, many PC makers and chip companies are charging into the mobile phone business, promising new devices that can pack the horsepower of standard computers into palm-size packages.” CROSS-LISTED UNDER ‘SMART PHONES’ IN CHAPTER 3 BELOW.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?scp=1&sq=Steve%20Lohr,%20G.E.%27s%20Breakthrough%20Can%20Put%20100%20DVD%27s%20on%20a%20Disc&st=Search
“G.E.’sBreakthrough Can Put 100 DVD’s on a Disc” - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/technology/business-computing/31virtual.html?scp=1&sq=%22Challenging%20Microsoft%20With%20a%20New%20Technology%22%20%20&st=cse
"Challenging Microsoft With a New Technology": the rise of virtual machines - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/personaltech/19basics.html
"Network Storage Comes Home, Not Without Some Difficulty": the latest in external hard drives. - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/technology/personaltech/26pogue.html?scp=4&sq=David%20Pogue,%20The%20Camera%20That%20Knows%20Where%20It%20Is&st=Search
"When Your Camera Knows Where You Are": "That's right: photo geotagging has finally come to a camera near you. Noting what photo was taken where used to require either tedious manual data entry or expensive add-on gear. Now it comes cheaply and automatically. Once on your Mac or PC, each such photo shows the city and state where it was taken." - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/technology/28compute.html?ref=todayspaper
"Chinese Wrest Supercomputer Title from U.S.": "A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made...The computer, known has Tianhe-IA, has 1.4 times the horsepower of the current top computer, which is at a national laboratory in Tennessee, as measured by the standard test used to gauge how well the systems handle mathematical calculations...[T]he official list of the top 500 fastest machines...comes out every six months..."
Some Important People in Information Technology
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreesen
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners-Lee
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Chen_(computer_engineer)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Codd
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsgar_Dijkstra
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Hurley
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawed_Karim
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Raymond
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html?_r=1
Article on Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
Other Important Figures in Electronic Communication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Some Important Companies in Information Technology
Googlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/business/22digi.html?scp=1&sq=Randall%20Stross,%20%22Everyone%20Loves%20Google,%20Until%20It%27s%20Too%20Big%22&st=cse
- “Everyone Loves Google, Until It’s Too Big”
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Laura%20M.%20Holson,%20%22Putting%20a%20Bolder%20Face%20on%20Google%22&st=cse
- A woman from Wausau, WI is “the gatekeeper of Google’s home page…[She] controls the look, feel, and functionality of the Internet’s most heavily trafficked search engine.”
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15ping.html?scp=1&sq=Vindu%20Goel,%20%22Why%20Google%20Pulls%20the%20Plug%22&st=cse
Google eliminates several new products, including Lively and Dodgeball. - http://www.google.org/recharge/
Google’s effort to promote electric plug-in vehicles - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/12gene.html?ref=todayspaper
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, is at higher-than-average risk of developing Parkinson’s Disease, so not surprisingly, he is financing research into it.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/business/18msft.html?ref=business
“Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy”
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISCO
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Research
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Parc
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/technology/companies/28verizon.html?ref=business
“Verizon Said To Be in Talks for the iPhone” - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/technology/companies/26hp.html?scp=2&sq=Ashlee%20Vance,%20Does%20H.P.%20Need%20a%20Dose%20of%20Anarchy?&st=Search“Does H.P. Need a Dose of Anarchy?”
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Related Developments in Neurologyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/science/14neuron.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Nicholas%20wade,%20decoding%20the%20human%20brain,%20with%20help%20from%20a%20fly&st=cse "Decoding the Human Brain, With Help From a Fly": "Taiwanese researchers have managed to bar code some 16,000 of the 100,000 neurons in a fruit fly's brain and to reconstruct the brain's wiring map. In terms similar to those that define computers, the team describes the general architecture of the fly's brain as composed of 41 local processing units, 58 tracts that link the units to other parts of the brain, and six hubs. Biologists see this atlas ofthe fly brain as a first step toward understanding the human brain."
Michio Kaku’s Vision of the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM0nkk1to_o
Michio Kaku's vision of the world in 2030rticle
“How Driverless Cars Will Interact With People”
Driverless Cars
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/technology/how-driverless-cars-may-interact-with-people.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-3&action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
"How Driverless Cars Will Interact With People"
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/technology/self-driving-cars-guidelines.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
“U.S. Signals Backing for Self-Driving Cars”