Archive - This Month In the History of Information Technologies

A Persistent Human Hallucination

The stubborn belief that faster production and transmission of information brings global peace

Jul 1 •

June 2025

On the Selling of Ideas

The marketing of AI

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Librarians Against the Machine

Is ChatGPT today’s incarnation of EMERAC?

May 1 •

April 2025

Modern Computing Or Killer AI?

The enduring power of lively human imagination

Apr 1 •

March 2025

The Impact of Technology on Jobs

From automated knitting to augmented intelligence or AI

Mar 1 •

February 2025

Creating a Space

For all the useful and useless information

Feb 1 •

January 2025

The Machine of Our Times

The past and present of automation, augmentation, and “democratization”

Jan 1 •

December 2024

What used to be Information Retrieval

Dec 31, 2024 •

“Event Cinema” industry born

Dec 30, 2024 •

The Transistor Conceived

And Silicon Valley born

Dec 29, 2024 •

Movie Industry Born

50-second films

Dec 28, 2024 •

Mechanical Brains

Dr. Wiener stops in a cold sweat and looks a few years ahead

Dec 27, 2024 •

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