03196oam 22007454a 450 991082534640332120240516123829.00-8147-2842-10-8147-2866-910.18574/nyu/9780814728666.001.0001(CKB)2670000000167748(EBL)865458(OCoLC)780425886(SSID)ssj0000607118(PQKBManifestationID)11973815(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607118(PQKBWorkID)10584652(PQKB)10830743(OCoLC)794701071(MdBmJHUP)muse10819(MiAaPQ)EBC865458(DE-B1597)548649(DE-B1597)9780814728666(EXLCZ)99267000000016774820050617d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrElectric Dreams Computers in American Culture /Ted Friedman1st ed.New York ;London :New York University Press,[2005]©20051 online resource (286 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-2740-9 0-8147-2739-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255) and index.Introduction : the dialectic of technological determinism -- Part I. Mainframe culture. Charles Babbage and the politics of computer memory -- Ideologies of information processing: from analog to digital -- Filming the "electronic brain" -- Part II. The personal computer. The many creators of the personal computer -- Apple's 1984 -- The rise of the simulation game -- Part III. The interpersonal computer. Imagining cyberspace -- Dot-com politics -- Beyond Napster -- Linux and utopia -- Conclusion : cybertopia today.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 argComputersHistoryComputersSocial aspectsComputers and civilizationElectronic books. computers.cultural.fears.history.hopes.inpsired.reveals.technology.that.ComputersHistory.ComputersSocial aspects.Computers and civilization.303.48/33Friedman Ted627140MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910825346403321Electric Dreams4057935UNINA