Bolter

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The nineteenth-century zoetrope was one of many mechanical devices that could portray moving images that unfold over time from a sequence of still images.

Turing's man is the first who actually works with time. Like space, time is a commodity provided by the computer, a material to be molded, insofar as this is possible, to human ends. This intimate contact with time promises success in time (progress) but also an awareness of ultimate temporal limitations. . . . The CPU (and each program it executes) is a consumer of time, of the abstract, electrical pulses handed out by the sequencing mechanism; it therefore must be constructed to be a wise consumer. Time is a resource, perhaps the primary resource, by which the computer operates.
- Jay David Bolter (American computer scientist, born 1951), Turing's Man

See Also

• Metaphors of Space
• Bolter
• Davies
• Concrete Poetry
• Memory and Space
• Cyberpunk
• Romantic Time
• Canning
• Minsky