The end of this chaotic year is finally in sight. If you’re Zoomed out, tired of trying to learn TikTok dances or need an escape from the news, now may be the perfect time to get lost in a book.From novels centered on contemporary social issues to heartbreaking memoirs and bisexual thrillers, LGBTQ authors published…
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Hitting the Books: How Bell Labs jump-started the multimedia art movement
MIT Press Copyright ©2020 W. Patrick McCray All rights reserved. The following excerpt is reprinted from Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture by W. Patrick McCray. Reprinted with permission of MIT Press.Like many young electrical engineers, especially those with advanced training from elite schools, [Billy] Klüver had a wealth of…
Hitting the Books: An analog computer ushered in the video game era
Once upon a time there was an early hominid. And possibly, at some point, this Early Hominid threw a rock at a mastodon he was hunting, or at a saber-tooth tiger, or at another Early Hominid, and missed; instead the rock hit a hollow tree, and it made a funny sound. “Ha, ha!” said Early…