Dick van Lente 
Prophets of Computing [EPUB ebook] 
Visions of Society Transformed by Computing

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When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines’ use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day.

As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences.

This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages—the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of ’the future with computers.’

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Dick van Lente is a retired lecturer in cultural history at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is interested in the cultural aspects of the history of technology, especially during the Cold War period. He is the editor of The Nuclear Age in Popular Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He serves as a review editor of the journal Technology and Culture.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 556 ● ISBN 9781450398169 ● Filstorlek 6.3 MB ● Redaktör Dick van Lente ● Utgivare Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers ● Stad New York City ● Publicerad 2022 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 8766269 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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