This document provides an overview of the history of technology and the progression to the information age. It begins with discussing technology in ancient Greece and how the meaning has evolved over time. Key developments in computing technology are highlighted, from the abacus to the slide rule to handheld calculators. The document then focuses on the machine age and developments like Babbage's Analytical Engine, Turing machines, and early digital computers. It describes the dawn of the information age and innovations in information technology, personal computers, the internet, and encryption. Finally, it discusses the modern knowledge economy and careers like graphic design, website design, and system administration.

1. H4CKER
WORKSHOP
by Disa Johnson

2. AGENDAHistory of Technology
The Machine Age
The Information Age
Internet & Career Hacking

3. HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
● In Greece, as the development of systematic techniques for
making and doing things came into being over time,
technology meant a discourse on both applied and fine arts.
● When technology first appeared in 17th century English texts,
it was used to mean only a discussion of the applied arts. It
gradually came to designating the applied “arts” themselves.
● By the early 20th century, during the Machine Age, the term
technology embraced a growing range of means, processes,
and ideas in addition to tools and machines.

4. COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY
PROGRESSION
● 2700 BC: Sumerian Abacus
● 150 BC: Analog Computer (Antikythera Mechanism)
● Designed with gears to calculate astronomical positions
● Predicted lunar and solar eclipses
● 1624: Slide Rule Reigned Supreme Until 1974
● Multiplication, Division, Roots, Logarithms, Trigonometry
● Augmented special scales were used for Aviation & Finance
● 1974: Handheld Scientific Calculator

5. TURING COMPLETENESS IN THE
MACHINE AGE
● 1834: Babbage’s Analytical Engine
● 1936: Turing Machine
● 1937: Electromechanical Boolean-logic Multiplier
● Digital Computers, Computer Science
● 1948: Intelligent Machinery
● 1949: Manchester Mark 1, Stored-Program Computer
● EDSAC, EDVAC, BINAC Quickly Followed
● 1950: National Physical Laboratory’s Pilot ACE

6. “We are trying to build a machine to do
all kinds of different things simply by
programming rather than by the
addition of extra apparatus.
-Alan Turing 1947

7. DAWN OF THE INFORMATION AGE
● The Computer Age, The Digital Age
● Major Manufacturers Include: Rand, Bell, IBM
● Can Machines Think?
● Turing Test: If a computer, on the basis of written replies to
questions, could not be distinguished from a human
respondent, then it must be “thinking.”
● 1952: Grace Hopper Invents Compiler Program
● 1956: Direct Keyboard Input (Ended Punch Cards)
● 1957-1960: Programming Languages
● FORTRAN, MATH-MATIC, LISP, Hyperlink, Hypertext

8. THE INFORMATION AGE COMES OF
AGE
● Information Technology (IT)
● Mass Storage, Random Access Memory
● Microprocessor
● UNIX & Computer Networking
● Internet: TCP/IP, Email, FTP, Telnet
● Personal Computer Revolution
● Commercial Internet & Globalization
● Gopher, World Wide Web, Cats
● PGP Encryption

9. KNOWLEDGE
ECONOMY
● Creative Persons
● Graphic Designers
● Website Design
● User Experience (UX)
● Full-on Nerds
● Database Administrators
● System Admins
● DevOps
● Full-Stack Unicorns
● DIY All The Things!

10. CREATIVE PERSONS DO DESIGN
HACKING

11. SYSTEM
ADMINISTRATIO
N
Let’s go use a command line
prompt.

12. @AIRDISA
Twitter, Github,
CodePen