In the article How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is, describes the story on how the digital age came to be involved as a cast of nearly more than 40 individuals. Further, this period was ranging from the 19th century countless English to hippies of California. The new book of Walter Isaacson, The Innovators, illustrates many characters which are profiled due to their collaborations to assist in bringing the development of digital age. The interview highlights are on the event from the initial stages of computed innovations to the latest digital era.
The early computers are described to be big things with vacuum tubes to glow and let the heat off. They looked like old items in old movies with blinking lights since they occupied a whole room with their primary use on wartimes. Besides, the standardization of the internet came about when the designers of internet decided that it should not be put into a central control. The essence of this was to develop a system that was distributed to intersect and destroy the communication system of the Russians by the Americans.
The developers of the internet were not interested in counter-attacking the Russians but were revolutionary anti-authoritarians who needed the power to the people. On to this note, the feeling of the people about the government involvement in the development of computer was sinister by that time. Primarily this was when George Orwell was coming out in 1984, but the developers of the internet and personal computers realized that it was essential to make it personal. The essence of this was to provide access and power to every person, and this would assist the system to become as an Orwellian. In regards to modern technology, the development of iPhone, laptops are made to support the manual operations such as even switching off and on of the circuit. Therefore, the belief of future development should create a better understanding of things such as software operations.
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National radio 2014 How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/06/353269811/how-the-cold-war-and-george-orwell-helped-make-the-internet-what-it-is
