(updated Nov. 2021)
 

 

READING QUESTIONS

Leonardo to the Internet:
Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
Thomas J. Misa
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022; 3rd edition

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WWW sites:

  • Misa's Global Culture bibliography
  • Chapter 8. Promises of Global Culture (1970-2001)

    How does ca.1970–2001 form a meaningful and coherent period in history?  Is it an "era"?


    Characterize the main points of supporters and critics in the global-economy debate.
     
     
    DISCUSS the varied evidence for "convergence" and "persisting divergence" views on global culture.
     
     
    How is the recent "third" global economy similar to earlier ones? What ended the "second" global economy (1860~1920s)?  What are differences between today's global economy and the earlier 1990s?
     
     
    Fax machines in U.S. and Japan: which country developed which machines? How was fax shaped by global technology standards? . . . cultural elements?
     
     
    What was the impact of McDonald's on Europe, Asia, Russia?  What was the impact on McDonald's...?
     
     
     
    Trace the history of the Internet from DoD to private ISP and global WWW.  How did Tim Berners-Lee build "global" values into WWW? What else made the internet "global"?
     
     



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