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Electric dreams : computers in American culture / Ted Friedman.

Friedman, Ted.
2005
QA76.9.C66 F745 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Electric dreams : computers in American culture / Ted Friedman.
Author
Friedman, Ted.
ISBN
0814727409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814727409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814727395 (alk. paper)
9780814727393 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
Description
x, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
QA76.9.C66 F745 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/33
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255) and index.
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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.

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