This should yield a few leads... ;-) Bardini, Thierry. 1995. The Social Construction of the Personal Computer User. Journal of Communication, Summer. . 2000. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Edwards, Paul N. 1996. The closed world: computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon. 1998. Where wizards stay up late: the origins of the Internet. New York: Touchstone. Rheingold, Howard. 2000. Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. 2nd Rev. ed: MIT Press. Smith, Douglas K., and Robert C. Alexander. 1988. Fumbling the Future: How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. Waldrop, M. Mitchell. 2001. The Dream Machine. J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. New York: Penguin. winston, Brian. 1998. Media technology & society: a history from the telegraph to the internet. London: Routledge. Best, Charlie -- Charlie Breindahl Ph.D. Student, Copenhagen + Malmö Web: http://staff.hum.ku.dk/hitch/ http://www.creativeenvironments.mah.se/ Phone: +45 35 32 81 19 or +46 40 665 71 51 Mobile: +45 51 92 15 98 E-mail: hitch@hum.ku.dk "For the modern Don Quixote, the windmills have been preprogrammed to turn into knights" - Janet H. Murray
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Antonio Roversi Sent: 15. april 2002 23:10 To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] History of computer
Dear Aoirs
i am looking for books, essays etc. about a cultural and/or sociological history of computer. I know just one book, e.g. Steven Levy: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated
Yours
Antonio
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