Electric dreams : : computers in American culture / / Ted Friedman.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, London : : New York University Press,, [2005] 2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 275 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.