How the World got into the Computer: The Emergence of Digital Reality - Hardcover

Gugerli, David

 
9783034016711: How the World got into the Computer: The Emergence of Digital Reality
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3034016719 ISBN 13: 9783034016711
Verlag: Chronos, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Around 1950, computers learned how to sort numbers and words. Immediately, many questions arose. What could be done with such a machine? How should its space be set up and governed? Moving the world into the computer meant rethinking many things. Bank transactions, spa guests, and terrorists, to name but a few, had to be “formatted” so that they could be dealt with in the machine. In doing so, managers, programmers, and users created a digital world that offered new ways of classifying things and organizing complex relations. Some people even linked machines, combined data, and shared programs. And computers designed to sort personnel unexpectedly became personal computers. This elegant essay explores how and why.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Gugerli is professor of the history of technology at ETH Zurich. He has made many contributions to the history of computing including, most recently, “Simulation for All: The Politics of Supercomputing in Stuttgart”, published with Ricky Wichum.

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Verlag
Chronos
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3034016719
ISBN 13 
9783034016711
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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