中文打字机

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• ... Indeed, if this book can be said to have one primary argument, it is that we must venture into the technological abyss to recover something of great importance that took shape here while the world was not paying attention -- something that cannot be captured through conventional, celebratory, impact-focused histories of technologies. This expedition, however, requires us to dispense with the easy iconoclasm of the character abolitionists, and equally so with any implicit desire for all histories of technology to be histories of triumph. Our story will be composed of what can only be called a long cascade of short-lived experiments, prototypes, and failures, where even the most successful devices lived only brief lives before disappearing into obscurity. [...] Counterintuitively, howeve... (查看原文)

  苏诺 1赞 2018-04-18 22:56:50

• 作为一种根植于语言且以语言为中介的技术类型，中文的电报、打字机和计算机问题超出了有关“技术转化”和“技术扩散”的传统叙事，这种叙事长期以来都主导着我们关于如何将西方的工业、军事及其他设备和操作方式传播到非西方地区的理解。相对而言，打字、电报、速记法和计算机等技术语言学系统实现这一过程的条件要更加苛刻，因为这些系统都是直接在字母文字的基础上构思和发明出来的，所以中文打字机或中文电码即便想发挥最基础的功能，都需要相关发明者、制造者和操作者将中文和这些技术本身进行前所未有的分析和重构——不仅是对中文，也要对打字机、电报机、计算机等技术进行仔细审视。也就是说，想要让汉字的一切保持不变，就必须改变关于汉字，以及现代信息技术的一切。 (查看原文)

  nightrain 2023-05-21 13:40:55

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