Ben Finney
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%2... _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