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Author: Paul N. Edwards
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 026205051X

The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Inside Technology)

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The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories - the history of American global power, the history of computing machines, and the history of subjectivity in science and culture - through the lens of the American political imagination. In the process, it reveals intimate links between the military projects Search and find a lot of computer books in many category availabe for free download.

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