In an era where artificial intelligence and screens shape our minds, author Hilde Nagell takes the reader back to the childhood of the internet – when visionary researchers, writers and entrepreneurs dreamed of what the new computer technology could become.
Computer history is a recurring theme in our technology history lectures, and the fall semester starts with some of the most important milestones in Norwegian computer history. We look at how the research community at Kjeller became part of the international collaboration that laid the foundation for the internet, and how the company Norsk Data grew out of the same environment.
We also discuss the development of the programming language Simula in close collaboration with the University of Oslo. When the internet was opened to the public through the World Wide Web in the 1990s, Norway was also at the forefront.
All of these are themes in Hilde Nagell's new book, and today's lecture.
Speaker, Hilde Nagell (b. 1979) is an advisor at the think tank Agenda, and currently works at the environmental foundation Zero. She has a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and has worked extensively with political philosophy. Nagell has previously published the book "Digital revolution (Res Publica, 2020)".
Registration and information
The event is free and there will be light refreshments in the museum's café from 4 p.m. for those who have pre-registered.
Norway's National Museum of Technology, Industry, Science and Medicine. Here you will find exciting exhibitions and activities a short distance from central Oslo.
