Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture

Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture

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"Electric Dreams" is at once a synthetic history of the personal computer, a history of representations of the computer, and a treatise on how to think about computing as a cultural phenomenon. Friedman's original analyses and clear style make the book a pleasure to read."
—Jonathan Sterne, author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles fo 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 argues that the debates over computers are critically important because they are how Americans talk about the future. In a society that in so many ways has given up on imagining anything better than multinational capitalism, cyberculture offers room to dream of different kinds of tomorrow.

Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture,Ted Friedman,New York University Press,0814727409,Computer Bks - General Information,Computers,Computers and civilization,General,History,History - General History,Popular Culture - General,Social Aspects,Social Aspects - General,Social Science,Sociology

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