By Gina Smith, Steve Wozniak
"iWoz strains the lifestyles and instances of a super, gifted... person whose contributions to the medical, company and cultural nation-states are extensive."—Bookpage
Before narrow laptops that healthy into briefcases, pcs gave the look of unusual, alien merchandising machines. yet in "the so much incredible burst of technical invention by means of a unmarried individual in high-tech history" (BusinessWeek) Steve Wozniak invented the 1st real computer. Wozniak teamed up with Steve Jobs, and Apple machine used to be born, igniting the pc revolution and remodeling the realm. the following, thirty years later, the mischievous genius with the low profile treats readers to a rollicking, no-holds-barred account of his life—for as soon as, within the voice of the wizard himself.
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In other words, he seems not to take enough account of the quite unexpected social effects of many, if not most, technologies. Certainly the Internet’s trajectory from cold war survivability to ebay is the clearest, recent example. Late in the “Techné” essay, Winner poses as a question: “what forms of technology are compatible with the kind of society we want to build” (1986, p. 52)? Similarly, in his most famous paper (1980), he suggests that overpasses leading to the beaches on Long Island were deliberately low to keep buses (and the poor who ride them) off the beaches owned by the rich (That essay is criticized along the lines suggested here in Joerges, 1999).
1006). Various information technologies, from Digital Rights Management to website tracking can be used to essentially eliminate the anonymity of reading (Cohen, 2003). The chilling effect should be obvious: I am less likely to read controversial materials, or materials that could be taken as evidence of my disloyalty or moral corruption, if I know that someone is likely tracking my reading habits. 25 G. HULL The problem runs deeper than this. If there is any truth to the claim that “I” am my thoughts, then a change in the information environment that restricts or channels the information available to me effects a change in who I am.
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