The closed world : computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America / Paul N. Edwards.
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نصالسلاسل:Inside technologyالناشر:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 1996وصف:xx, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
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- 026205051X (hbk)
- QA76.17 E34 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-428) and index.
1. "We Defend Every Place": Building the Cold War World -- 2. Why Build Computers?: The Military Role in Computer Research -- 3. SAGE -- 4. From Operations Research to the Electronic Battlefield -- 5. Interlude: Metaphor and the Politics of Subjectivity -- 6. The Machine in the Middle: Cybernetic Psychology and World War II -- 7. Noise, Communication, and Cognition -- 8. Constructing Artificial Intelligence -- 9. Computers and Politics in Cold War II -- 10. Minds, Machines, and Subjectivity in the Closed World -- Epilogue: Cyborgs in the World Wide Web.
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.
