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9781450398176: Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing (ACM Books)
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ISBN 10: 1450398170 ISBN 13: 9781450398176
Editorial: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022

Sinopsis

When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines' use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day.

As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences.

This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages-the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of "the future with computers."

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Dick van Lente is a retired lecturer in cultural history at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is interested in the cultural aspects of the history of technology, especially during the Cold War period. He is the editor of The Nuclear Age in Popular Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He serves as a review editor of the journal Technology and Culture.

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Editorial
Association for Computing Machinery
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1450398170
ISBN 13 
9781450398176
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Número de páginas
556
Editor
Van Lente Dick
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