The comedy of computation, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love obsolescence /

In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From the first Broadway play to include a computer in the 1950s to popular films like You'v...

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Main Author:	Mangrum, Benjamin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025].
Subjects:	Computers > Humor. Technology > Humor. Computers in literature. Technology in literature. American wit and humor > History and criticism. American literature > Themes, motives.