She has also written for Vice, The Guardian, Wired and Aeon and in 2013 became editor-in-chief of OMNI Reboot, the online version of the science magazine OMNI. Learn about their inventions and contributions that touch our lives in ways we don’t even realise.Ĭlaire writes the popular science and culture blog Universe, which is hosted by National Geographic's Scienceblogs network one of her essays within this, titled "Moon Art: Fallen Astronaut" was anthologised in The Best Science Writing Online 2012. It’s not because the female counterpart hasn’t contributed to creating the internet, but simply that they’ve been hidden from the limelight. This is a radicallyimportant, timely work. And Claire Evans tells the story like a friend who knows you get bored easily a generous sort of brilliance that pulled me right in. A question and answer period will follow the talk. In her breakthrough book Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, VICE reporter and musician Claire L Evans tells the story of. Broad Band is the Our Bodies, Ourselves for all computer usersthis knowledge belongs to us. When you think of the big names in technology, names like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Tim Berners-Lee spring to mind.īut what about women? How many can you name? Evans will speak about her book Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. She is the lead singer and co-author of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, an advisor to graduate design students at ArtCenter College of Design and is a member of the cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. Evans is a singer, writer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied social convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs.Broadband: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the InternetĬlaire L. Evans shows us how these women built and colored the technologies we can’t imagine life without.
Meet Elizabeth “Jake” Feinler, the one-woman Google who kept the earliest version of the Internet online, and Stacy Horn, who ran one of the first-ever social networks on a shoestring out of her New York City apartment in the 1980s. Seek inspiration from Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing by leading the charge for machine-independent programming languages after World War II. Evans is a great book to read and thats why I recommend reading or. Learn from Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, who wove numbers into the first program for a mechanical computer in 1842. Read Online Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet PDF by Claire L.
Evans finally gives these unsung female heroes their due with her social history of the Broad Band, the women who made the internet what it is today. But they’ve often been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don’t even realize.Īuthor Claire L. Women are not ancillary to the history of technology they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave.
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