Noel Packard
Biographic Data
| ID | 335229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noel Packard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noel |
| FAMILY NAME | Packard |
| SIGNATURE | PACKARD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6589-3362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Internet History Differentiated: A Manifesto
Why don't we differentiate Internet history the way we demarcate other important historical epochs such as B.C. from A.D., pre-from post-WWII history, or the Dark Ages from the Enlightenment?This proposal advocates for differentiating Internet history into three epochs: 1) non-Internet (pre -1960), 2) Cold War/military networks (1960 -1995) and 3) commercial Internet history (1995 -onward).I argue that differentiating Internet history helps us re…
Internet Prehistory: Arpanet Chronology
How did ARPANET or Advanced Research Projects Agency networks, arguably the most expensive invention in history, become the Internet?The US tax-funded ARPANET was tested before being commercialized.Testing included neutralizing civilians in an anti-Communist counterinsurgency with minimal evidence and plausible deniability.Max Weber's ideal type and social order concepts help describe how occupational status groups (OSGs) tested ever-changing ARP…
Three kinds of demand pull for the Arpanet into the Internet
This essay examines how the US government intelligence community (IC) as well as the public and commercial sectors contributed demand-pull, in different ways, for an unregulated, privatized Internet. Demand-pull entails more demand than supply, or a shortage in supply (such as a shortage in networks and thus a demand-pull for them). It is argued that an excessive supply of Cold War era IC spy data, which required high-speed data processing, incen…
Weber on Status Groups and Collegiality: Applying the Analysis to a Modern Organization
Max Weber's legacy includes his ideas about ideal types, status groups and value conflicts that help shape and give meaning to society. This paper uses these conceptualizations to examine Weber's ideal type status group, the Chinese Literate and test it by applying it to a modern group, specifically the Göring Institute, which harbored the German psychotherapy profession during the Third Reich (1933–1945). Weber's description of ancient Chinese L…
From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory: Thoughts on Some Early European Conceptualizations of Memory, Morality, and Consciousness
How did human memory activity, conceived of as an activity that helped bring a person closer to God, become affiliated with early sociological conceptualizations of a social construction of reality? This article explores one way of answering this question by considering some social conceptions of human memory from medieval times to modernity. In the Middle Ages, a good memory was an important characteristic of the most esteemed scholars. Rhetoric…
An Analysis of a Segment of the Historic “Repressed Memory-Debates”
New Developments in Electronic Technology: In Monitoring the “Other” We Discover Ourselves
Cet article porte un regard critique sur l'industrie de la surveillance utilisant les nouvelles technologies electroniques. Ayant deborde depuis longtemps de leurs applications au strict domaine de l'espionnage militaire, ces technologies sont sous-tendues par un projet disciplinaire qui pose un veritable probleme de liberte publique, illustre notamment par le manque d'acces du public aux banques de donnees ou par l'intrusion des technologies de …
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New Developments in Electronic Technology: In Monitoring the “Other” We Discover Ourselves
Cet article porte un regard critique sur l'industrie de la surveillance utilisant les nouvelles technologies electroniques. Ayant deborde depuis longtemps de leurs applications au strict domaine de l'espionnage militaire, ces technologies sont sous-tendues par un projet disciplinaire qui pose un veritable probleme de liberte publique, illustre notamment par le manque d'acces du public aux banques de donnees ou par l'intrusion des technologies de …
An Analysis of a Segment of the Historic “Repressed Memory-Debates”
From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory: Thoughts on Some Early European Conceptualizations of Memory, Morality, and Consciousness
How did human memory activity, conceived of as an activity that helped bring a person closer to God, become affiliated with early sociological conceptualizations of a social construction of reality? This article explores one way of answering this question by considering some social conceptions of human memory from medieval times to modernity. In the Middle Ages, a good memory was an important characteristic of the most esteemed scholars. Rhetoric…
Weber on Status Groups and Collegiality: Applying the Analysis to a Modern Organization
Max Weber's legacy includes his ideas about ideal types, status groups and value conflicts that help shape and give meaning to society. This paper uses these conceptualizations to examine Weber's ideal type status group, the Chinese Literate and test it by applying it to a modern group, specifically the Göring Institute, which harbored the German psychotherapy profession during the Third Reich (1933–1945). Weber's description of ancient Chinese L…
Three kinds of demand pull for the Arpanet into the Internet
This essay examines how the US government intelligence community (IC) as well as the public and commercial sectors contributed demand-pull, in different ways, for an unregulated, privatized Internet. Demand-pull entails more demand than supply, or a shortage in supply (such as a shortage in networks and thus a demand-pull for them). It is argued that an excessive supply of Cold War era IC spy data, which required high-speed data processing, incen…
Internet Prehistory: Arpanet Chronology
How did ARPANET or Advanced Research Projects Agency networks, arguably the most expensive invention in history, become the Internet?The US tax-funded ARPANET was tested before being commercialized.Testing included neutralizing civilians in an anti-Communist counterinsurgency with minimal evidence and plausible deniability.Max Weber's ideal type and social order concepts help describe how occupational status groups (OSGs) tested ever-changing ARP…
Internet History Differentiated: A Manifesto
Why don't we differentiate Internet history the way we demarcate other important historical epochs such as B.C. from A.D., pre-from post-WWII history, or the Dark Ages from the Enlightenment?This proposal advocates for differentiating Internet history into three epochs: 1) non-Internet (pre -1960), 2) Cold War/military networks (1960 -1995) and 3) commercial Internet history (1995 -onward).I argue that differentiating Internet history helps us re…
Sociology (4 works) · History of Computing Technologies (3 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Modernity (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)