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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.
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by Agar, Jon
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