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But if he admitted τέχνη goes back more than 50 years then Ben would need to engage some actual STS instead of just projecting current investment trends! He mig
by morelisp 6y ago
But if he admitted τέχνη goes back more than 50 years then Ben would need to engage some actual STS instead of just projecting current investment trends! He might even need enough object permanence to understand things existed before he was born!
- shuckles 6y agoPretty sure Ben read history at Cambridge and is aware of the past.
- masswerk 6y agoI even have some difficulties figuring out what might distinguish 1971 as a landmark. In computing, it was a mildly impressive year seeing the introduction of coin-op video games (Computer Space), the general availability of floppy disks (while 1960s tech), Niklaus Wirth gave us Pascal as the latest in Algol-like languages, but not really that much out of the ordinary. (Well, the intel 4004 was introduced, starting the age of cost-effective Japanese calculators. But the 8008 was sketched out before that, relying on the late 1960s design of the DP 2200 – and it would take a few years before anyone took serious interest in that one.)
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoWell as we all know, all of computing revolves around Unix, and therefore effectively begins at 1970-01-01. I'm... mostly joking, although that's actually basically true for the parts of computing that I personally work in so I actually do use 1970 as the beginning mark for the "modern era" in my head.
- masswerk 6y agoI forgot about this one! As to my defence, my first computers didn't sport a date (only TI and TI$) and then came classic Macs, which used the more Edwardian January 1, 1904 as the epoch. ;-)