This book is about computers, as machines and as metaphors, in the politics and culture of Cold War America.
An edition of The Closed World
(1996)
The closed world
computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America
by Paul N. Edwards
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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 contexts shaped emerging computer technology - and were transformed, in turn, by information machines.
The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories - the history of American global power, the history of computing machines, and the history of subjectivity in science and culture - through the lens of the American political imagination. In the process, it reveals intimate links among the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.
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History, Military art and science, Data processing, Computers, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, Computers, law and legislation, Ordinateurs, Histoire, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Popular Culture, Computer Science, Engineering & Applied Sciences, Military, Computers, history, Military art and science, data processing, Military art and science, history| Edition | Availability |
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The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Inside Technology)
August 1, 1997, The MIT Press
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in English
0262550288 9780262550284
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The closed world: computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America
1996, MIT Press
in English
026205051X 9780262050517
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Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
1996, MIT Press
in English
0585002916 9780585002910
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-428) and index.
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