The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America by Paul N. Edwards

The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America

Paul N. Edwards

462 pages hardcover 1996

1 edition

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Closed World offers a radically new 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,...

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