The Hardware of Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4022000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Burlingame (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1959 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11 |
| Publication date | 1959-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3100783 |
| OpenAlex | W2322284399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
No PERSON WHO HAS followed the trends in historical writing can fail to be impressed by the revolution that has taken place in the last quarter century in the treatment and acceptance of the technological story. The record of the technics of the past has come alive. We may read today not merely of machines and processes, of architecture and engineering in their separate existence at various stages of civilization, but of their bearing upon one another and even upon social evolution. Today it is occasionally possible to look down a vista into a remote past and see such evolution as a whole with its parts in just perspective. In this vista we see not only the struggle of mankind toward the abstractions of liberty or political and economic order but the physical factors which were often causal. To put it in modern jargon we see in this vista the hardware of culture
Computer hardware · Architecture and Computational Design · Art, Technology, and Culture · Computer Science · History of Computing Technologies
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1974 - 2016 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |