Comments on: Derrick de Kerckhove’s rebuttal to my de-electrification of computing https://www.concernednetizen.com/2019/08/derrick-de-kerckhoves-rebuttal-to-my-de-electrification-of-computing/ Full-Stack Media Ecology Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: ArrangedMirage https://www.concernednetizen.com/2019/08/derrick-de-kerckhoves-rebuttal-to-my-de-electrification-of-computing/#comment-113 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:18:38 +0000 http://www.concernednetizen.com/?p=359#comment-113 An interesting conversation!

Some thoughts:

The “one thing at a time” nature of the CPU seems trivial when considering the speed at which one thing follows another. Computation, in the sense of calculations and logical operations, may not be electric in and of itself, but the speed at which these operations can be carried out via electric circuitry is what’s truly transformative.

If computers/digital processes are figures to an electrical ground, can simulated cyberspace be considered figure to the ground of machine language? If so, what are the hidden effects of machine language?

It seems that as computers advance, they are inevitably drawn towards the characteristics of electricity itself i.e. simultaneity and subatomic scale. Parallel computing and research into quantum computers springs to mind…

Any thoughts on this? Keep up the great work!

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