It was originally garage rock and it developed between 1974-1976 in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. It was created by bands that didn’t accept the mainstream types of 1970’s rock. A lot of times the bands use short songs loaded with power cords with lyrics that often have themes of anti-establishment. Some of the bands that were big in starting this genre were the Ramones, Sex-Pistols, the Clash, Television, and the Damned.  This lead to different versions of punk. Street punk and alternative rock were the mainstream in England. This gave a whole culture that was how people dressed and saw the world. In America, pop-punk is the sub-genre that really blew up with bands like Green-Day, the Offspring, and Blink (now Blink 182). The popularity of punk music tends to ebb and flow with how the economy and political state of a nation. It is more popular when people are angry and upset and want a way to show that.

• the Minsteral Show: white guys dressing up in black face
  • songs written in that era were made for these shows
  • very racist and appropriating culture
  • meant to be entertaining and hyped for white people
  • It was only acceptable if a white person was dressing as a black person but a black person couldn’t dress as a white person- wasn’t considered funny, it was wrong

These are wrong and it amazes me how they can easily make of other people and not be able to take what you give.

• Railroad and Telegraph
  • instant communication and transportation to different places at a time
  • changes space and time
• Time zones
  • changed how time is looked at because the time and the sun aren’t the same everywhere
  • the sun would be up in Maine for a while before Chicago but it is the same time in both locations
• electric light
  • people would adapt there hours to when the sun was up until they could just switch on the light, changing the factor of time
• Motion pictures
  • displace time and space and can take you back to where the picture was taken, you can relive the past
  • it is possible to go back to the location without being there
  • do we think in the way movies are made or do movies base on how we think
• • Flat discs
    • records: dominate the music world- people don’t have to leave their house to listen to music and they can listen to the past
    • acoustic recording era: no microphone- volume is controlled by where people are sitting
    • Music became something that didn’t have to be social
      • it was privatized
      • and permanent to how it is reorded
    • Electrical recording era- after 1925
      • could use microphones so everyone is heard
      • Ribbon mic- fragile
      • a quiet person- could be heard in a whole music hall- displaced location
      • tape recording- recording things on multiple different tapes for one final recording

• signal to noise ratio
  • the amount of noise being produced and the amount of noise understood
  • telegraph: the further the signal has to go the less clear it is; the noise is distorted
  • could get electromechanical switches to do algebra
  • Alan Turing- developed a test to determine the intelligence of a machine
    • is it true if a machine can fool you into being a human, it has to be considered intelligent
  • John Searl- one must know what they are doing and have intention to not be a machine
    • machines aren’t intelligent- they just follow rules
  • originality is a piece of intelligence- but is not all of it
    • plagiarism is the lack of intelligence and lazy
  • Claude shannon- the mathematical theory of communication
    • the more uncertainty in a message the more information
    • information and meaning are separate- words don’t have meaning they are just information
    • words don’t care about meaning to you but are there to convey information
    • are humans intelligent?

There are plenty of people who helped invent the internet and most were inspired by or in spite of each other.

• First computer
  • punch cards- programs
  • Arpanet- 1970 (advanced research project agency)
    • transmit programing info across lines
    • designed to survive nuclear attack
• Tim Berners-Lee: inventor of world wide web- find a way to make communication more universal
• hypertext- rewire authority/ make new ways for people to gain information
  • http: hypertext transfer protocol
• The internet: all the worlds interconnectivity
  • www subset of internet
  • Information wants to be free

• Plato is the father of Idealism- somewhere there is an ideal for everything. Everything is perfect
  • people are flawed and need something to look toward
  • you have a model to follow
  • know oneself to be imperfect but will find a perfect somewhere
    • it is ones duty to seek perfection
  • Forget an individual’s ideal, there is only one
  • the ideal moves your soul
• Realist does not believe there is an ideal
  • we have no perfect example we are just here and then we aren’t
  • there is no ideal just something you have been trained to love
  • very skeptical
  • find terrible things moving
  • nobody is any closer to an imaginary ideal than anybody else
  • everyone is alike and not alike at the same time
  • It is a dog eat dog world and what one person does has nothing to do with anything another person does

I feel as though i am a realist. There is no perfect world or something to strive for except doing what we think, based on our past, to be good.

• the Cold War
  • US vs. USSR
  • US economy is booming and industrial nations are struggling
  • US goal is to keep communism contained
  • Military doctrine  “MAD” (mutually assured destruction
    • new weapons assumed we never have to use or will be used against us
  • US economy structure changes with large scale standing army
  • Central to the technological benefits we have today
  • Boats have lead to multiple advancements

Computers have become a huge part of our lives and we can thank militaries for our ability to have information immediatly

• gain knowledge without literature learn in a communal sense with people in a group context coming to a consensus

• a person who has control over their body is what makes us not animals
• if one does not have a control of their private self what do they have the ability to control

If we can master all parts of ourselves we can help others find a way to do so with themselves

Reading is unnatural and it switches from public and someone teaching to splitting yourself and teaching yourself

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