Timeline and Downey
I created a timeline focusing on the Raid on Mers el-Kebir, which I researched for History 299 last semester. There have been a series of communications advancements in the past couple hundred years, from new roads, to steam power and the telegraph, to automobiles and telephones, to the internet. Downey examines the technological progression from …
Timeline Example + Downey Discussion
Last semester for Virginia Issues & Controversies with Professor Moon, our final project had to incorporate a “digital tool,” and I made a timeline. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jKM1fX9Cu5_wqodZZOHfeIcdduJEq0l1yPAyDO3rXFs/edit?usp=sharing Downey breaks down the information age into discussions of the technologies of communication and how they evolved and replaced each other over time. He identifies four major periods of communication …
Major Battles of the Spanish Civil War + Downey
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Downey summarizes that information technology is modern America is a…
Downey Reading and Timelines
Downey’s book Technology and Communication in American History looks at technology not as an actor but as something that is acted on and developed through human culture, development and politics. He looks at the evolution and development of culture through the eyes of historians who view technology as the “sum of the methods by which […]
Downey reading run down.
Innovation deos not occur in a vacuum; innovation is shaped by the interplay of private enterprise, the public’s interest, and federal policy, all built upon the existing infrastructures of the society at large. For a technolgoical inovation or product to gain widespread adoption, there must be a socially recognized need and foundational body of work, […]
Minecraft Java Edition Update History [Time Line WIP]
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1/20/2025
Reading through the three intro’s of Broad Band, The Information & The Cybernetics Moment It sparked a lot of thoughts in my mind. Firstly when I thought about radio and early computers in our discussion about “what is the information age” I did not think about the enomorse amount of labor it took to run …