Switch - the new media art journal of the CADRE Institute, San Jose
State University.

http://switch.sjsu.edu

Featured Writers: Steve Cisler, Frank Dietrich, Steve Dietz, Alex
Galloway, Eugene Thacker, Joel Slayton, Geri Wittig, Sheila Malone, and
Don Tanner.

Interviews with: etoy, Lev Manovich, Mark Tribe, Rachel Baker, Eugene
Thacker, Olia Lialina, RTmark, Usman Haque, and Heath Bunting.

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Editorial notes for Switch v5n3 - Database:

One of the most important developments of the 20th century was the
proliferation of the database into every fiber of Western cultural
fabric, (which of course has had profound global impact). The rise of
companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Sun Microsystems, Wal-Mart, AOL,
and Oracle Corporation are among the notorious manifestations (including
the Internet itself), that have in one way or another reaped the
benefits of database. From "just-in-time" delivery and picking systems
to inventory, process, and financial management, database enables
significant and culturally transforming productivity gains that are
manifested ultimately in the distribution of atoms and the actual. No
doubt, the roots of this revolution can be traced through figures such
as George Boole, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Kurt G