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The government machine : a revolutionary history of the computer /

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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.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 554 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:9780262266857
0262266857
0585481180
9780585481180
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/3336.001.0001