How we got here -- 40 Years in the Wilderness
Early days at Stanford — the 1950s
The importance of being lazy
Only 6 computers needed for entire country
Stats was it — no conception of use with words
Programming in machine language
North Carolina — the 1960s
Univac 1105 and the 1960 census
John Kerr’s visit
Experiments with text — concordances
Attempts to put newspaper in computer
First computerized edition 1964
Complaints from the profession
Cru-isers, Gol-dwater and Mousek-eteers
The demise of the printing craft unions
University of Texas — the 1970s
The 1970s: Linotypes out/computers in
The Daily Texan goes electronic in 1973
Something for the blind students
Content Analysis and computers
Can computers read and understand?
Artificial intelligence emerges
The Revolution of the 1980s
The first desktops arrive
What is this thing called word processing?
From doing science to doing teaching
Project Quest — seeding the campus with new ideas
Campus backbone network — speeding up service
The business office — firewalls
A library for all of Texas
Research —100 years of the LAT and NYT
The 1990s --Computers for Productivity
Computers in the classrooms and offices
The SMRF
The Microcenter
E-mail for everyone
Retired Faculty and Staff, alumni go online
The Internet -- gift of the American universities
Tenet — Texas
Ask Alice — Columbia
The media lab — MIT
Gopher — Minnesota
BASIC — Dartmouth
YAHOO — Stanford
Mosaic-Netscape — Illinois
The faculty computer initiative at UT
Can we talk?
Where are we today?
Online services
Compuserve
Prodigy
America Online
The Internet — It’s not the same thing
Computers talking to computers — what an odd idea!
Is it mass communication or not?
So many connections — society’s brain
Surfing the net with Netscape
Who pays for it?
What about advertising?
Multimedia — what is it?
What’s out there in cyberspace? — Everything
Example: the weather
Example: our Trip to Paris
Example: OJ transcripts
Example: UT sports — the OU game
Example: The Daily Texan
Example: The coffeepot at Cambridge
Example: The A&M bonfire
Example: The Fruit Fly — The Human Genome
Example: Religion
Who benefits? -- Nearly Everybody
First Graders slide show
Scotty beam me over — pen pals in Norway
People with handicaps — Robert Burns, Morgan Watkins
Retirement? what’s that?
keeping track of money
meeting new friends
keeping in touch — e-mail
personal pages
genealogy
being creative
Greater Austin Area Telecommunications Network
UT
AISD
City of Austin
Travis County
LCRA
ACC
State of Texas
What linking agencies electronically means
The fiber optic city — high speed information for everyone
Should Austin consider this?
What should minimum configuration be?
Being information rich and information poor
Should information cost money?
A Carnegie Library for the world
What happens next?
Earning a living in an information society
The neighbors across the street — Austin as a suburb of SF
Going on leave at home
Publishing on the internet
Committee reports
Is job a disappearing concept?
Free enterprise — the greatest market in the world
Can’t do intellectual tasks? — You’re in trouble
Gathering information
Do we need newspapers?
Do we need the post office?
Do we need libraries?
Do we need TV?
Do we need radio?
Do we need film?
Show electronic camera
Will everyone be a journalist in 2010?
Do we need the other professions?
law
medicine
architecture
business
engineering
teaching
library science
education
fine arts
psychiatry
religion
Drowning in information — what’s the answer?
bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terrabytes
Intelligent agents — content analysis again
Personal librarians
Personal editors
The power of groups
What happens to community?
Living in a chat group
The loss of privacy
Dealing with intruders — flaming
Predators on the net
New forms of theft
Can we do business this way? The NYT says no
Should the government be able to snoop?
What about encryption?
The reinvention of reading and writing
Do nothing until I call you Monday
E-mail and the grandchildren
Phoenix and Guam aren’t so far away
The on-line office hour
Electronic submission of papers
Study groups on line
Committees in cyberspace
The electronic library
The electronic university — accreditation report
Dr. D.’s Helpful Hints
Goodbye, Gutenberg
The Book
Invention of the book in the West 1450
The Incunabula — 1450-1499
The Computer
Invention of the Computer in 1950
The Incunabula — 1950-1999
Coming out of the wilderness at last
Cities of the plain?
Glimpses of the promised land?
