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Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedman, Ted
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the dialectic of technological determinism
  • Part I. Mainframe culture. Charles Babbage and the politics of computer memory
  • Ideologies of information processing: from analog to digital
  • Filming the "electronic brain"
  • Part II. The personal computer. The many creators of the personal computer
  • Apple's 1984
  • The rise of the simulation game
  • Part III. The interpersonal computer. Imagining cyberspace
  • Dot-com politics
  • Beyond Napster
  • Linux and utopia
  • Conclusion : cybertopia today.