Archive 24 Feb 2008 Dis-Content-ed Control: Five Posts on Information Mathematicians, Policy Failures, and Vaults Part one of five. Rough talk notes follow below. Thanks to Chris Anderson, Jonah Bossewitch, Todd Gitlin, Tom Glaisyer, and… Ben Peters
Archive 24 Feb 2008 Case Study Two: Parallel Information Frontiers: 1990 Internet and Eastern Europe Part three of five. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the Internet in the US grew extensively after 1994.… Ben Peters 6 Comments
Archive 24 Feb 2008 Case study one: Information Sciences around Post WWII MIT. Part two of five. The MIT cluster around Norbert Wiener and Claude Shannon on cybernetics and information theory respectively gave… Ben Peters 2 Comments
Archive 24 Feb 2008 Case Study Three: The Granite Mountain Record Vault Part four of five.The Granite Mountain Record Vault in Little Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Utah, which contains the… Ben Peters 12 Comments
Archive 24 Feb 2008 Instead of a Conclusion Post five of five. In sum, the Cold War funded a vast amount of information projects. These three case studies… Ben Peters
Archive 18 Feb 2008 Proposal Musings I The genre of dissertation proposal is as tricky as it is essential. How one is possibly supposed to write about… Ben Peters 3 Comments
Archive 17 Feb 2008 Kalahari Arrow Exchange and Distributional Ownership Imagine a mode of ownership based on distributional generosity. If it works in the Kalahari desert, who are we to… Ben Peters 2 Comments
Archive 15 Feb 2008 The Vault: A Mountain of Granite and Gold Click on entry title to read the article discussed below ("The Vault: A Mountain of Granite and Gold" by David… Ben Peters 8 Comments
Archive 14 Feb 2008 (Uncorrected proof) Book Review: Turizm An uncorrected proof of my forthcoming book review (2008) of Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist Under Capitalism and… Ben Peters
Archive 13 Feb 2008 Another note toward a Soviet Internet Not only did queueing theory—or the mathematical study of waiting inlines that inspired packet-switching, the heart of Internet-styledistributed digital networks—resemble… Ben Peters 1 Comment