The Closed World
Engineering & Applied Sciences
Military art and science, history
United states, politics and government, 1945-1989
Ordinateurs
Cultural
Cultural Policy
Military
Military art and science
Computer science
Anthropology
Public Policy
Popular culture
Data processing
Computers
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Political science
History
The Closed World offers a radical 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 contex…
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