Electric Dreams Computers in American Culture
Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's "difference engine" in the nineteenth century to contempora...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
NYU Press
2005
New York University Press |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9780814727393, 0814727395, 9780814727409, 0814727409 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the
cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to
define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a
century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's "difference engine"
in the nineteenth century to contemporary struggles over file
swapping, open source software, and the future of online
journalism. To reveal the hopes and fears inspired by computers,
Electric Dreams examines a wide range of texts,
including films, advertisements, novels, magazines, computer games,
blogs, and even operating systems. Electric Dreams
argues that the debates over computers are critically important
because they are how Americans talk about the future. In a society
that in so many ways has given up on imagining anything better than
multinational capitalism, cyberculture offers room to dream of
different kinds of tomorrow. |
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| Bibliography: | SourceType-Books-1 ObjectType-Book-1 content type line 7 |
| ISBN: | 9780814727393 0814727395 9780814727409 0814727409 |
| DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9780814728666.001.0001 |