Clips and sites of interest

 

 

 

 

 

NSA Data center in Bluffdale Utah

 

for more information about NSA’s data collection center in Bluffdale see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

also for information about the US air force and its mission in cyberspace see: http//www.safcioa6.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-120312-011.pdf

 

 

 

cyborg and tools

Some sample sites of historical interest:
World’s Fair 1939-40 “World of Tomorrow’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRoaPLvQx0

AT&T/Bell archives about using telephones see, for example:
Bell Telephone selling the 1950s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHGww4F-3E

silent film about using dial phones 1929       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbwRYCYJzI

recruiting and training operators  1920s     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbwRYCYJzI

telephone courtesy 1940s    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudfzQRN3GQ
First TV color broadcast, 1958 Eisenhower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOwhGzMU6UQ

Some current issues:

--An Uneasy Relationship Between Telecom and Tech 

Large mobile carriers and tech giants like Facebook and Google rely on one another, but they are competing to be consumers’ main source for Internet use on mobile devices.

http://nyti.ms/1EZp1hG


From The New York Times:

Apple’s New Job: Selling a Smartwatch to an Uninterested Public

The Apple Watch is scheduled to debut in April, a bit later than the company had hoped, because of technology challenges.

 

The Youtube clip of the ‘Medieval Help desk’–scrolls vs books: