Electronic Media at Mid-Century - Class Presentation

I always find it handy to have some context on the authors I'm reading. Here's some Eames-applied overview of today's authors:

Vannevar Bush | As We May Think
(March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974)

Key works & major contributions

Marshall McLuhan | The Galaxy Reconfigured and The Medium is the Message

(July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980)

Key works & major contributions

Orit Halpern | Perceptual Machines: Communication, Archiving, and Vision in Post-War American Design

(Interactive Design and Theory. Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal)

Contributions on digital cultures [https://vimeo.com/97931162]

Lisa Nakamura | Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture

(Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

Racialized culture and online racism [and McLuhan's Global Village]

For our discussion:

• Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold" 
• In 1965 self-styled "systems humanist" Ted Nelson published "Complex Information Processing: A File Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and the Indeterminate," ACM '65 Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference, 84-100. 
• hypertext and hypermedia 
• features of a computerized information system. 
• "link" = "hyperlink."
  [source: historyofinformation.com/]
• Hypothes.is as collaborative annotation
• "A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site"
• Visual intro [https://youtu.be/QCkm0lL-6lc]

• Self-indexing