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Electric dreams : computers in American culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, Ted
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Computers > History.
Computers > Social aspects.
Computers and civilization.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.