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Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)

We're so pleased to welcome Dr. Amelia Acker, author of Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms (MIT Press, 2025) to the New Books Network! This book describes the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have le ...  Show more

 . 46min 55sec

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Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)

We're so pleased to welcome Dr. Amelia Acker, author of Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms (MIT Press, 2025) to the New Books Network! This book describes the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have le ...  Show more

 . 46min 55sec
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)

The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age. Whether we interact with video games or spreadsheets or social media, playing with software shapes every facet of our lives. In Playing ...  Show more

 . 1h 1min
Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)

Neuroscientific evidence increasingly shows that consciousness is a remarkable but explainable function of a machinelike brain. Alan J. McComas' discusses his article for the American Scientist. Alan J. McComas is an emeritus professor of medicine at McMaster University in Hamilt ...  Show more

 . 1h 3min
Honghong Tinn, "Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)

How Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, from computer maker to the world's leading chip manufacturer. How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? I ...  Show more

 . 1h 12min
Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and guest host, Paula Bialski, Associate Professor of Digital Sociology at University of St. Gallen, talk to Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, about his classic 2006 book, _From Countercult ...  Show more

 . 1h 19min