I know i’m late but it should be fine the sun isn’t even up yet!

In this class we continued on from yesterday. What I took away as the most important was that in World War II is an example of a command and control system which would become seemingly permanent after WWII. I also think that an important part of the lesson was that thanks to Vannevar Bush that have the mindset we do now about the growth of technology and efficiency. I think this because as mentioned in class during the Cold War we had a lot of information that was being siloed, but Bush was thinking of alternative ways acting on the information given; thus giving a democratic outlook on computers by the end of the Cold War. My teacher also talked about the creation of memex, which is like a smartphone but the size of desk, as well as the ENIAC, which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrate And Computer. This tool has vacuum tubes, unfortunately it is less capable than the phone mainly because sound going through something overtime becomes less and less vibrant, making it hard to hear.

Today’s class was a lot easier to understand and helped explain any confusion I had on Week 4 Day 1. I think my favorite part of this class was learning how Douglas Englebert was responsible (partially?) for creating the images/ icons we see on the computer screen rather than having to type in a command in order to pull up a file.

-Andrea Moye