The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer /

Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general-purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general-purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant."--J...

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Main Author:	Agar, Jon
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Series:	History of computing
Subjects:	Computers > Government policy > Great Britain > History. Public administration > Great Britain > Data processing > History. Civil service > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain > History. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology COMPUTER SCIENCE/General Electronic books.
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