Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture / Ted Friedman.

Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture / Ted Friedman.

9780814728666

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2005]

©2005

English

In English.

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10.18574/nyu/9780814728666.001.0001 doi

QA76.9.C66

303.4833

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 contemporary struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism. To reveal the hopes and fears inspired by computers, Electric Dreams examines a wide range of texts, including films, advertisements, novels, magazines, computer games, blogs, and even operating systems.Electric Dreams argues that the debates over computers are critically important because they are how Americans talk about the future. In a society that in so many ways has given up on imagining anything better than multinational capitalism, cyberculture offers room to dream of different kinds of tomorrow.

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