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Poland had a similar monthly magazine ( https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%82ody_Technik https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%82ody_Technik ) I wondered whether
by Erwin 9y ago
Poland had a similar monthly magazine ( https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%82ody_Technik https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%82ody_Technik )
I wondered whether it was inspired by the USSR one but it dated back to 1932. Being able to read about RSA -- and calculate it by hand is something that inspired me to be enthusiastic about computers.
I escaped Poland in '87 to Denmark -- and Donald Duck bi-monthly. No math olympiads there!
- richard_shelton 9y agoI remember another Polish journal: Horyzonty Techniki dla Dzieci (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalejdoskop_Techniki https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalejdoskop_Techniki ). I was reading Russian translated version of it under the name Горизонты техники для детей. I don't know if this journal was popular in Poland, but we, kids from USSR, liked it very much! And I still remember the chapters of В Стране Микроников, или Секреты компьютера by Мирослав Томаля. This book was published in the journal. Sorry, I found no Polish or English sources about the book and the author. The book was about the kids who by some magic got inside the computer. Basically the story is the same as in The Town in the Snuff-box by Vladimir Odoyevsky. But with a lots of details about how computer hardware works. Today I could suggest this book to kids and some curious front-end web developers! :)
- mirimir 9y agoDo you recall whether Собо́рность were mentioned in that book?
- richard_shelton 9y agoWell, there were characters like Czar Zet Eightieth and Princess Motorola 6845 in the book. You hardly may found something about Соборность in Soviet tech journals, more likely -- synergy, emergence and stuff like this :)
- mirimir 9y agoThanks. I was wondering whether Hannu Rajaniemi had read about them in such places. It was just a social concept, I guess. So maybe Hannu made the jump to virtual life.
- richard_shelton 9y agoI never heard about Hannu Rajaniemi, but I like sci-fi genre and first 2 books of his trilogy already translated to Russian, so I'll definitely read them. Thank you! I was a bit surprised that you've connected the term sobornost with my originial message. In fact Odoevsky' tale is not only about mechanics or optics, it has philosophical meaning too and one can relate things like sobornost to it. But I think not many even Russian critics think so deep about this old tale. Early ideas of Odoevsky and slavophiles made a base for a philosophy of Russian cosmism [1]. Just a few famous names related to this philosophy: Nikolai Fyodorov [2], Konstantin Tsiolkovsky [3] (one of the fathers of rocketry and astronautics), Alexander Bogdanov [4] (father of systems theory), Vladimir Vernadsky [7] (noosphere). I also suggest to read The Cybernetic Manifesto [6] by Valentin Turchin [5] (the author of programming language Refal) for more modern view on sobornost-like things. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Turchin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Turchin [6] http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MANIFESTO.html http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MANIFESTO.html [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vernadsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vernadsky
- mirimir 9y agoHey, thanks! > I was a bit surprised that you've connected the term sobornost with my originial message. Well, you said: > ... kids who by some magic got inside the computer ... And that's what the Sobornost are in the Flower Prince trilogy. Uploaded followers of Fyodorov. Their enemy is the Zoku, who are descendents of uploaded MMORPG freaks. Less collectivist, and more collaborationist. Edit: Another take on Fyodorovism is The Last Trumpet Project by Kevin MacArdry. https://anarplex.net/hosted/files/last_trumpet/LTP.pdf https://anarplex.net/hosted/files/last_trumpet/LTP.pdf
- mirimir 9y agoHere's a decent version, which works with Google Translate: https://coollib.com/b/379170 https://coollib.com/b/379170
- grn 9y agoMłody Technik is still in print today.