On September 14th, I learned a significant amount on the invention of information management and computers. Max Weber, whom was a philosopher, believed that information management was the key innovation of the industrial world. The topic then transitioned into Bell Labs, which I have never heard of. Bell Labs developed digital audio theory, laser, led, and cell phones. Bell Labs today is known as Nokia, which is a company I have heard of and is well recognized, but I never knew they were credited for the developments of major digital and scientific creations. On September 19th, I was introduced to “most important man no one knows about” Claude Shannon, who is the father of information theory. Shannon worked for Bell Lab as a coder and would do a significant amount of decoding. Shannon argued that information and meaning are two different things, when you put it into perspective this is a true statement. Each person can have a different meaning or interpretation to certain information. Working at Bell Labs Shannon meets Alan Turing who decrypted the nazi code. I am surprised that I have never heard of either of these names before as they are important figures in history. Without Turing it is hard to say how WW2 would have ended or the final outcome. To finish up, on September 21 (week 4) we discussed how easy it is to argue that America is military aggressive after 1960. What I learned was the military funding far outnumbers the spending and net income of all United States corporations. It really just goes to show that after WW2 how important a national defense became. The military ties in with computers because they are crucial as research involves targeting and pinpointing exact location. A crazy thought is how only 100 websites existed in the world in June 1993, when the internet is practically many peoples lives today. Also, in this class I learned about arpanet which was something I had never heard before. Arpanet was created to transmit information between lines and developed a set of protocols and became easier to manage, not to mention how cool it is that arpanet was designed to be able to stand a nuclear attack. Without the invention of the computer our military would not thrive. By taking History 390 I have learned a significant amount of information about companies, inventions, and concepts that I do not think I would have learned about without taking this class.