The Computer in the Humanities, Friend or Foe?
1996; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 30; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3333197
ISSN1543-7809
Autores Tópico(s)Digital Humanities and Scholarship
ResumoMy presentation consists of the obligatory four parts plus the peroratio. In part one, I want to tell you what I do with the computer myself; in part two, what I could do if I had the money, time, and assistance, and all those good things; in part three, I want to talk about what is still lying just around the comer, things we will be able to do in a year or so. In part four, after praising Caesar, I want to talk about some of the drawbacks the computer brings with it and some of the real dangers. Before I do this, however, let me delimit the subject somewhat, or, as the current cliche has it, point out that my title is strictly a misnomer. Firstly, I will be talking about the digital computer; in fact, most people upon hearing the word computer forget that there is even such a thing as an analog computer, though the familiar watch example u,aally brings it forcibly to their attention. Secondly, I shall be speaking mainly of the personal computer, which comes in several forms: desktop, laptop, notebook, hand-held. Miniaturization grows, or should I say diminishes, apace, so that I am holding in my hand a miniature of yesteryear, containing the entire King James Bible, with all the necessary search mechanisms.1 In fact, I could have a notebook computer operating at 33 MegaHerz, with a 250 megabyte hard disk, which could be stacked to yield almost a 500 megabyte hard disk, with eight meg and more of RAM. Note that the technical terms of computerese
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