Category Archives: history

Winners and Losers..

By txt | Published: December 12, 1999

Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:17:55 AM Subject: Winners and Losers.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== In the constructive desire to halt any animosity that I may have created with Damien by my rather pedestrian concerns that technology can only be understood within broader social, historical and political structures, I have decided to log-off and find a [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 24, 1999

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 24, 1999

35 days to go… “There are those who predict that (internationalisation) in its present form will go on and on base their belief in the power of technology, whether in aviation, the computer, the satellite, or a host of other fields. But the biggest single influence on the rapid shrinking of the world is not [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 23, 1999

In 1930 it cost $244.65 for a three minute phone call from London to New York. Today it costs less than $4.00 In 1980 IBM predicted that the world market for personal computers over the next 10 years would be 275 000 By 1990, there were more than 60 million PC users.

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 23, 1999

(39 days until the end of the ‘popular elected century’ as opposed to the end of the real 20th century that doesn’t really end until 31 December 2000). In Freud’s opinion, it is true that women gains nothing by studying, and that on the whole woman’s lot will not improve thereby. Moreover, women cannot equal [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 18, 1999

Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999, 11:42:46 AM Subject: The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== With only 43 days left until the end of the 20th Century it is possibly important for us, as members of a public institution that is perhaps reflective of and dogged by late 20th Century nihilism, apathy and expediency, to think [...]

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(Mediacircus) The 20th Century

By txt | Published: November 5, 1999

Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999, 9:09:57 AM Subject: : Re: [mediacircus] The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== > > >But if microsoft hadn’t grown like this, then we would be without >microsoft-monopoly <http://www.ms-monopoly.com> > >> At the end of the Twentieth Century there are a few stark realities. >> Australia’s Gross Domestic Product, that is [...]

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Paper

By txt | Published: August 23, 1999

I liked you paper and I wish that I had have heard you presenting it. I especially like the idea of embedding your arguments of masculinity and patriarchy within the culture in which we live. All too often the Gibsonesque drones look for an escape in that barren soul-less place called ‘cyberspace’. I saw one [...]

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Macromedia and the 20th Century…

By txt | Published: July 12, 1999

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:23:43 AM Subject: Macromedia and the 20th Century… ===8<==============Original message text=============== >An event which was to greatly affect Turing throughout his life took place >in 1928. He formed a close friendship with Christopher Morcom, a pupil in >the year above him at school, and the two worked together on scientific [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: July 10, 1999

(38 Days to go until the end of the people’s century) The past is necessarily inferiour to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy? This is how we deny the past and how we cooperate with the victorious who hold the [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: April 10, 1999

When I was at battler school, in North West Tasmania…a state that this century has reaped extinction on not only the Tasmanian Tiger but also an entire race of people (Trugennini was the last Tasmanian Aboriginal and Terrance was the last Tasmanian Tiger) I learnt that you need a complete unit before you can call [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: February 12, 1999

Date: Thursday, December 2, 1999, 10:00:23 AM Subject: The 20th Century It is ironic that the WTO conference is being held in Seattle WA, a city that spored Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon books and Nivarna. If globalisation is inevitable (or this particular brand that is being interpreted by the West Coast Techno-Right) then how come there [...]

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