Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 2)
Children-Computer Symbiosis and the Reinvention of Childhood Since the 1950s, researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and computer sc...
Author: andres lombana bermudez
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 1)
The cover of BYTE magazine (the small systems journal) from November, 1976, is a color photograph of two children sat in front of what it seems to be a home com...
Remixing El Caganer
Among the Catalan traditions that surprised me during the year I lived in Barcelona (2004), was the Caganer (literally translates: pooper, defecator), a popular...
Documentary Storytelling According to Les Blank
It is rare to find film documentaries that are narrator-less and avoid having a first person point of view. Even more rare, is to find documentaries that are at...
Outer Space and the Home/Personal Computer
The history of the personal computer revolution has several myths. Some of them focus on individual geniuses (hackers, nerds, or hippies), others on single mach...
A Man as a Caricature: Cheech Marin
Today i went to a special event organized by the center for mexican american studies that featured the film screening of Born in East L.A and a talk with direct...