HW1 Assignment
For the week of February 4th , the assigned material that I find most interesting is the article “Getting Started: The Basic Technologies Behind the Web” and learning about how things that seem so simple for those of us that use the internet are actually extremely complicated to create. This topic is interesting to me because I think that it will help me appreciate all that technology has and can do for me if I learn to use different forms of technology sufficiently. In the following weeks, I am interested in reading the article “The Difference Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities,” because I would like to see how this topic connects to the course and the “digital past”.
Throughout this semester I am interesting in exploring these topics:
1.) The transformation of technology serving as an instrument of function for daily humans needs (for example tractors being used to harvest crops or even refrigerators to sustain perishable foods) to the use of technology for entertainment (for example television or radio).
2.) History of competition between nations/countries on the basis of developing/improving technology
3.) History of technology growth in specific geographic areas, for example: Silicon Valley.
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