Photographer Imogen Cunningham studied Chemistry, Studio Art and Art History while learning photography.

A Computer Lesson Still Unlearned

Posted by stoots on Oct 22nd, 2012 | Comments Off home title

NEW YORK TIMES | by FLOYD NORRIS

It was just a quarter-century ago that Wall Street was shaken to its core by the Oct. 19, 1987, stock market crash.

… What it [signified] was the beginning of the destruction of markets by dumb computers. Or, to be fair to the computers, by computers programmed by fallible people and trusted by people who did not understand the computer programs’ limitations. As computers came in, human judgment went out.

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"For centuries the Phoenicians alone possessed the secret of the manufacture of purple. ... The Roman emperors transferred the manufacture of purple to Italy and conducted it as a monopoly. The art of purple dying, which, like many of the arts, had reached a high level at this time, was lost almost completely in the stormy period which marked the migration of nations. For a short time the art was still preserved in the Byzantine Empire, only to become extinct there in the 12th Century."

Josef Maria Eder, Edward Epstean, and Hinricus Lüppo-Cramer, HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1945).

A Computer Lesson Still Unlearned

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