Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture.

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Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's "difference engine" in the nineteenth century to contempora...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedman, Ted
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2005.
Temas:
Computers and civilization > Social aspects.
Computers > History.
Computers.
Computers
Ordinateurs et civilisation > Aspect social.
Ordinateurs > Histoire.
Ordinateurs.
computers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
cultural.
fears.
history.
hopes.
inpsired.
reveals.
technology.
that.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Dialectic of Technological Determinism
  • PART I: Mainframe Culture
  • 1 Charles Babbage and the Politics of Computer Memory
  • 2 Ideologies of Information Processing: From Analog to Digital
  • 3 Filming the "Electronic Brain"
  • PART II: The Personal Computer
  • 4 The Many Creators of the Personal Computer
  • 5 Apple's 1984
  • 6 The Rise of the Simulation Game
  • PART III: The Interpersonal Computer
  • 7 Imagining Cyberspace
  • 8 Dot-com Politics
  • 9 Beyond Napster
  • 10 Linux and Utopia
  • Conclusion: Cybertopia Today
  • Notes.

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