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The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Inside Technology)
Paul N. Edwards
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| #229093 in Books | 1997-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,1.37 | File type: PDF | 462 pages||0 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Lorna|Thanks!|23 of 43 people found the following review helpful.| Missing the point?|By Edward G. Nilges|While this is an excellent and sensitive overview of the history of computer science from a critical standpoint, it may miss the essential point. This is that while the announced intention of Cold War dat|.com |Edwards traces how computers have emerged as the dominant technology as a direct result of Cold War politics and the defense research it engendered. From the first use of room-size mainframes to coordinate missile systems, Pentagon research aimed toward c
The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology -- and were transformed, in turn, by information machines.
The Closed World explores three apparently dis...
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