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Everything is tech. And tech is nothing. For instance Google is an ad business. The web, aside from ads, is publishing. I propose we drop the construct altogeth
by newbamboo 5y ago
Everything is tech. And tech is nothing. For instance Google is an ad business. The web, aside from ads, is publishing. I propose we drop the construct altogether. It had its place back when personal computers were novel, but the contemporary historian writes code. Unless you mean software engineering, but much of that is now plumbing and project management.
- Eikon 5y ago> but the contemporary historian writes code. What?
- newbamboo 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_history
- leroman 5y agoI think he means something like the WayBackMachine (http://web.archive.org/ http://web.archive.org/) etc..
- jackvalentine 5y agoHere is one example I know of https://timsherratt.org https://timsherratt.org
- jrimbault 5y agoI had to help a friend, who's doing their history PhD, design a database for their research. I don't quite know what for. I also directed him to some online SQL courses. There's also this website https://programminghistorian.org/ https://programminghistorian.org/
- james_in_the_uk 5y agoI see what you are saying, but I think that there's a contradiction in your argument. The fact that /much of/ (i.e. not all) software engineering is plumbing and project management implies that there's still a nucleus which is proper tech. Someone has to write the frameworks, configure the servers, do the devops etc. even if it is being further and further abstracted away from the 'typical' user.
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