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It's got Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication": (warning, large PDF files) Parts I-II: http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/

It's got Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication": (warning, large PDF files) Parts I-II: http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-3-379.pdf http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-3-... Parts III-V: http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-4-623.pdf http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-4-... Cool!

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dredmorbius 12y ago
Trivium: a friend on G+ shared with me a story about having a Geniac kit as a kid -- an educational "computer" sold from 1955 through the 1960s by Edmund Berkeley. Included with was a copy of Claude Shannon's "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits". For a kid's game. Contrast that with today's "deep analysis" articles in which VirtualBox VMs are referred to as "Russian dolls" (to reference an earlier comment of mine). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac
- tomrod 12y ago
  I see no inconsistency. Few people in the 1950s would have purchased such a game, despite its novelty. Personally, I'd love a copy. This being said, the concept of a virtual machine fits pretty well within the idea of a Russian doll.
  - dredmorbius 12y ago
    There was a period of unabashed embrace of technology in the wake of WWII. Much of that had to do with the advances and successes of technology during the war: radar, missiles, the first jet aircraft, penicillin, and of course, the atom bomb. Vannevar Bush was commissioned by FDR to write a proposal for a national scientific research initiative, which appeared as Science, the Endless Frontier. This ultimately replaced the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development with the National Science Foundation (following some not-atypical politicking and hurdles). The mood began to change in the 1960s with opposition to nuclear testing, the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, concerns over pollution, overpopulation, and limits to growth, the emergence of the environmental movement, and other reactions to the earlier spirit of scientific, technological, and industrial progress.

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dredmorbius 12y ago

Trivium: a friend on G+ shared with me a story about having a Geniac kit as a kid -- an educational "computer" sold from 1955 through the 1960s by Edmund Berkeley. Included with was a copy of Claude Shannon's "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits". For a kid's game. Contrast that with today's "deep analysis" articles in which VirtualBox VMs are referred to as "Russian dolls" (to reference an earlier comment of mine). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac

tomrod 12y ago
I see no inconsistency. Few people in the 1950s would have purchased such a game, despite its novelty. Personally, I'd love a copy. This being said, the concept of a virtual machine fits pretty well within the idea of a Russian doll.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  There was a period of unabashed embrace of technology in the wake of WWII. Much of that had to do with the advances and successes of technology during the war: radar, missiles, the first jet aircraft, penicillin, and of course, the atom bomb. Vannevar Bush was commissioned by FDR to write a proposal for a national scientific research initiative, which appeared as Science, the Endless Frontier. This ultimately replaced the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development with the National Science Foundation (following some not-atypical politicking and hurdles). The mood began to change in the 1960s with opposition to nuclear testing, the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, concerns over pollution, overpopulation, and limits to growth, the emergence of the environmental movement, and other reactions to the earlier spirit of scientific, technological, and industrial progress.