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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ted Friedman |
| ISBN: | 0814727395 0814727409 9780814727393 9780814727409 |
| OCLC Number: | 191692858 |
| Description: | x, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Ted Friedman. |
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"Electric Dreams is at once a synthetic history of the personal computer, a history of representations of the computer, and a treatise on how to think about computing as a cultural phenomenon. Friedman's original analyses and clear style make the book a pleasure to read." - Jonathan Sterne, author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction" Read more...
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