Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > Lilly Ryan, a software developer and digital rights activist, joins us > at this month's Free Software Melbourne meeting, with the topic of > Scientific Hooliganism: What we can learn from the first hack in > history.
The fascinating history Lilly sketched for us included the engineering problem of Marconi's radio: precise tuning over distance. Recently I read an enthralling book which explores that problem and the effects of its solutions on our society. Written by James Gleick, <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information%3A_A_History%2C_a_Theory%2C_a_Flood> _The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood_ makes for excellent popular science writing and history. -- \ “Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better | `\ time.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
