{"id":40845,"date":"2014-01-22T07:10:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/law-order-computers.html"},"modified":"2014-01-22T07:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T14:10:56","slug":"law-order-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/law-order-computers.html","title":{"rendered":"Law & Order & Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Any sufficiently large body of data can be mined for something unexpected. In this case, how the changes in technology and society's relation to it between 1990 and 2010 can be charted out by watching "Law & Order" …<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Marty Shaw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Art project or creative excuse to be a couch potato? Either way, this guy binge-watched Law & Order<\/i>, documenting the use of computers throughout the series, and he discovered some interesting things along the way.<\/p>\n

For example, computers and smartphones are front and center these days, but way back in Season One, they were usually turned off and always stuck in the background somewhere, almost as an after-thought.<\/p>\n

The project also provides an interesting visual way to see how technology has changed over the years. Cool stuff. Wish I had thought of getting a grant to watch television.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Why One Man Watched Every Episode of ‘Law & Order’ And Took Screenshots of All the Computers<\/a>
\n Season 1, Episode 3: In the early years of Law & Order, computers were in the background, and usually turned off. And Law & Order is among the most popular television shows of all time. But nobody has binged on a show the way Jeffrey Thompson gorged himself on Law & Order. He also meticulously cataloged \u2014 with more than 11,000 screen shots \u2014 every single instance of a computer or similar technology that appeared on the show.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cDoes that sound…\n <\/p>\n

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Any sufficiently large body of data can be mined for something unexpected. In this case, how the changes in technology and society's relation to it between 1990 and 2010 can be charted out by watching "Law & Order" … Reshared post from +Marty Shaw Art project or creative excuse to be a couch potato? 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