Prophets of computing visions of society transformed by computing
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Association for Computing Machinery
2022
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | ACM books
50 |
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COMPUTERS / History
> COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
> Digital- und Informationstechnologien: soziale und ethische Aspekte
> Ethical & social aspects of IT
> Geschichte der Datenverarbeitung, Digital- und Informationstechnologien
> History of engineering & technology
> Information technology: general issues
> Aufsatzsammlung
> Informatik
> Geschichte
> Informationstechnik
> Computer
> Datenverarbeitung
> Gesellschaft
> Geschichte 1946-2015
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 475-516 Enthält ein Register |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 537 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781450398152 978-1-4503-9815-2 9781450398176 978-1-4503-9817-6 |