A People’s History of Computing in the United States

A People’s History of Computing in the United States
ISBN-10
0674988515
ISBN-13
9780674988514
Category
Computers
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
2018-10-22
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Joy Lisi Rankin

Description

Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration—when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.

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