Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture
by Friedman, TedFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-30
Publisher(s): New York Univ Pr
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Summary
Turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers and argues that debates over computers are critically important because they are how Americans talk about the future.
Author Biography
Ted Friedman teaches classes on the politics of new media and popular culture in the Department of Communications and the Moving Image Studies Program at Georgia State University.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : the dialectic of technological determinism | p. 1 |
| Charles Babbage and the politics of computer memory | p. 23 |
| Ideologies of information processing : from analog to digital | p. 35 |
| Filming the "electronic brain" | p. 47 |
| The many creators of the personal computer | p. 81 |
| Apple's 1984 | p. 102 |
| The rise of the simulation game | p. 121 |
| Imagining cyberspace | p. 161 |
| Dot-com politics | p. 171 |
| Beyond Napster | p. 186 |
| Linux and utopia | p. 198 |
| Conclusion : cybertopia today | p. 209 |
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