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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mangrum, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025].
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Table of Contents:
  • The one about race and robots
  • The one about being generic
  • The one about authenticity
  • The one about couples
  • The one with all the absurdity.