Benjamin Peters

Auteur van How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

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Benjamin Peters is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (2016) 64 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum: 1980
Geslacht: male
Land (voor op de kaart): USA
Beroepen: communication professor
Organisaties: University of Tulsa
Information Society Project, Yale Law School
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of… door Benjamin Peters

A fascinating overview of the failure to launch of the Soviet proto-internet, the All-State Automated System (OGAS). Doomed by the very political-economic bureaucracy it sought to reform, Peters' book is a unique take on technological roads not taken and alternative globalized futures. What might have been save for a pair of empty seats in a 1970 Central Committee meeting...

Peters is a bit repetitive throughout, and some of the early cybernetics discussion was lost on a layman like myself, but if you want an introduction to the Soviet internet that wasn't - and a comparison of market/emergent and hierarchical networking approaches, this really is the only game in town.… (meer)

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