[Air-l] History of computer

[Mario Guimaraes Jr.]

Pfaffenberger, Bryan (1988)  "The Social Meaning of the 
Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution 
was No Revolution".  Anthropological Quarterly, Vol 61, pp 
39-47.  

This paper gives an interesting account of the ideas around 
personal computing in the 60-70's. Despite I am not fully 
agree with his argument it is worth a reading.

Cheers,


Mario Guimaraes.




On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:09:30 -0400 Antonio Roversi 
<roversi at scform.unibo.it> wrote:

> Dear Aoirs
> 
> i am looking for books, essays etc. about a cultural and/or sociological 
> history of computer. I know just one book, e.g. Steven Levy: Hackers: Heroes 
> of the Computer Revolution. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated
> 
> Yours
> 
> Antonio
> 
> 
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Mario Guimaraes Jr.
CRICT - Brunel University, UK
mario.guimaraes at brunel.ac.uk
http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/~guima