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The closed world : computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America /

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The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural...

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Main Author: Edwards, Paul N. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1996]
Series:Inside technology
Subjects:
Computers > History.
Military art and science > Data processing > History.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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