How Computers Write History

Computers have made history in the 20th and 21st centuries. In the study of this development, perhaps also in the study of general histories since the late 20th century, historiography is therefore confronted with multiple challenges: with computers, the conditions of writing, reading, publishing, evaluating, organizing, archiving have changed.

The deliberately ambiguous title "How Computers Write History" describes current activities to discuss this challenge in the sense of a problem-oriented historiography of technology.
 

Publications:

Gugerli D & Zetti D (2024) Writing the History of Computing. The First Half Century. In: William Aspray (Hg.): Writing Computer and Information History. Approaches, Connections, and Reflections. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 163-190.

Zetti D (2023) KI, Fragen und die Zeit. In: Anna Tuschling, Andreas Sudmann, Bernhard J. Dotzler (Hg.): ChatGPT und andere »Quatschmaschinen«. Gespräche mit künstlicher Intelligenz. Bielefeld: transcript, 64-70.