Supplement to the Historiography (of computer science and technology)

Novel has created as many forms as the novels have been written so for. Starting from realism it has went through a lot of transformations and adopted or invented generic techniques to narrate almost everything human. In Urdu, novel usually concerned more about the social life and social change it depicted. By maintaining a liquidating equilibrium…[Read more]

The cultural relations of Turks and Subcontinent are centuries old. These relations got expression in literature. Early works of Urdu prose presents Turkey as country of fantasy. During the second half of nineteenth century, with the spread of print and colonial regime, Urdu prose incorporated this worldly matters in it. The newspapers and serial…[Read more]

Supplement to the Historiography (of computer science and technology)

Book review: Revolution in miniature; ‘Galerians’. / Braun and Macdonald’s classic history of semiconductors; and obscure Resident Evil clone

Book review: P.R. Morris’ A History of the
World Semiconductor Industry

History of semiconductor industry; ‘Hangtime’.

Book review: Queisser’s monograph about the micro-chip; ‘Psycho Dream’.

“What was assured to be ‘impossible’, sure to run costs into the millions, and
companies into the ground, and brilliant and innovative entrepreneurs into
poverty and the horror of mass normalcy, now suddenly was — possible —
with 3-4 people working out of bedrooms; whose visit card was a pink
website…”

‘River Story’; Labor organizing in tech.