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To day I visited the Birthplace of the Internet. I actually had no idea the first ARPANET message was sent from UCLA to Stanford! I grew home five minutes from Stanford and its crazy to think that one message was to be the catalyst for the massive technological revolution especially in fancy Silicon Valley.  ARPANET in full is the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network originated for military use to track incoming enemy aircraft and coordinate military responses. At first, just by glancing inside it looked like a scene and the equipment from the movie Enigma .  I wish we would've been able to go inside and given closer access to this historic place; however, it just encouraged me to do my own research! The ARPANET was a defense department project centered on the first router, the Interface Message Processor. The IMP was built by BBN Technologies (now a subsidiary of Raytheon) and based on theoretical work done by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock (he was the other person in the r

The last and final unit was surely an interesting one. Not only was it about the origin of space and how our understanding of it has developed since the Renaissance, but it also intersects with nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology. It all makes sense how everything is all connected in some way just like humans. Our  understanding of space by society was extremely primitive prior to the Renaissance era and only really began to develop within the last 60 years during space and technology race between the United States and the USSR. When American astronauts landed on the moon in 1969 that really set off the international test to explore space and discover something unknown to mankind. Man on Moon This is really where the art comes into play because to this day scientists, astrologists, meteorologists, etc do not even understand the vastness of space let alone the climate or inhabitants on these terrestrial planets and stars.  Thus, artists take space to their own interpreta