The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Integrating political, cultural, and technological history, it argues that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons.In this extended exploration of the relations of science and engineering to the evolution of modern society, Paul Edwards argues that what people have said, thought, and experienced through computers--as reflections of the nature of their minds; as solutions to political, commercial, and military problems; as icons of rationality--is as si…
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- ISBN: 978-0-262-55028-4
- EAN: 9780262550284
- Produktnummer: 1352206
- Verlag: Mit Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 462 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.7 cm 689 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 689
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Paul N. Edwards is Professor in the School of Information and the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (1996) and a coeditor (with Clark Miller) of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (2001), both published by the MIT Press.
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