February 08, 2005
Christie's "Origins of Cyberspace" Auction
The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications
23 February 2005, 10:00 am
Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York
The catalog is an amazing browse, even if you don't have extra cash lying around.
Karel Capek, R.U.R. Rossum's universal robots, Prague: Vydalo Aventinum, 1920
Estimate: $15,000-20,000
Highlights include:
- Edmund C. Berkeley's Giant brains or machines that think
- Karel Capek's R.U.R. Rossum's universal robots
- Joseph Marie Jacquard's manuscript on the Jacquard loom
- Claude E. Shannon's "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits"
- Alan Mathison Turing's "On computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem"
- Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine
- The UNIVAC Short Code
- J. Presper and John Mauchly's "Outline of plans for development of electronic computers"
Comments
God I love old books, and these are old fragments of the dream that was, but is now our present, and our future. This is inspiring. It's so cool to be a dreamer in this time, I hope the artifacts of thought left behind us will hold the same romance.
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at February 9, 2005 10:30 AM
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