Electric dreams : computers in American culture /
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the dialectic of technological determinism
- Part I. Mainframe culture. Charles Babbage and the politics of computer memory
- Ideologies of information processing: from analog to digital
- Filming the "electronic brain"
- Part II. The personal computer. The many creators of the personal computer
- Apple's 1984
- The rise of the simulation game
- Part III. The interpersonal computer. Imagining cyberspace
- Dot-com politics
- Beyond Napster
- Linux and utopia
- Conclusion : cybertopia today.