(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jul-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421446813)
This is the first book-length account of early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis. It explores how these efforts produced and interacted with certain professional tensions, disease constructions, personal identities, cultural ideals, economic...Loe edasi...
Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations. Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other tha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421443539)
The author traces the emergence in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the belief that personal computers should be easy to use. He asks readers to consider the consequences of a computational culture grounded in the assumption that the average person...Loe edasi...
