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engineeringhistory: The UNIVAC I, an early commercial computer. The first model was purchased by the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and 17 other units were installed elsewhere throughout the 1950s. One of the machines was famously used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election.
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But what if that same technology told you what to do before everyone else? That’s the premise of a futuristic new project, “The Fear Of Missing Out,” by artist Jonas Lund. While Lund roots his experiment in art creation, his concerns are widely resonant: Can data be used to predict cultural flashpoints before we can?…
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For more than 50 years now, we in the United States have been gradually reducing children’s opportunities to play, and the same is true in many other countries. In his book Children at Play: An American History (2007), Howard Chudacoff refers to the first half of the 20th century as the ‘golden age’ of children’s…