[Air-l] History of computer

[Charlie Breindahl]

This should yield a few leads...  ;-)

Bardini, Thierry. 1995. The Social Construction of the Personal Computer User. Journal of Communication, Summer.

———. 2000. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Edwards, Paul N. 1996. The closed world: computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon. 1998. Where wizards stay up late: the origins of the Internet. New York: Touchstone.

Rheingold, Howard. 2000. Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology. 2nd Rev. ed: MIT Press.

Smith, Douglas K., and Robert C. Alexander. 1988. Fumbling the Future: How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell. 2001. The Dream Machine. J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. New York: Penguin.

winston, Brian. 1998. Media technology & society: a history from the telegraph to the internet. London: Routledge.

Best,
Charlie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org]On Behalf Of
> Antonio Roversi
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> Subject: [Air-l] History of computer
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> 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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