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- catalog abstract "The Closed World offers a radical 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, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology - and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. 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 among the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.".
- catalog contributor b9124716.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "1. "We Defend Every Place": Building the Cold War World -- 2. Why Build Computers?: The Military Role in Computer Research -- 3. SAGE -- 4. From Operations Research to the Electronic Battlefield -- 5. Interlude: Metaphor and the Politics of Subjectivity -- 6. The Machine in the Middle: Cybernetic Psychology and World War II -- 7. Noise, Communication, and Cognition -- 8. Constructing Artificial Intelligence -- 9. Computers and Politics in Cold War II -- 10. Minds, Machines, and Subjectivity in the Closed World -- Epilogue: Cyborgs in the World Wide Web.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-428) and index.".
- catalog description "The Closed World offers a radical 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, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology - and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. 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 among the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.".
- catalog extent "xx, 440 p. :".
- catalog identifier "026205051X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Inside technology".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "306.2 20".
- catalog subject "Computers History.".
- catalog subject "Military art and science Data processing History.".
- catalog subject "QA76.17 .E34 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. "We Defend Every Place": Building the Cold War World -- 2. Why Build Computers?: The Military Role in Computer Research -- 3. SAGE -- 4. From Operations Research to the Electronic Battlefield -- 5. Interlude: Metaphor and the Politics of Subjectivity -- 6. The Machine in the Middle: Cybernetic Psychology and World War II -- 7. Noise, Communication, and Cognition -- 8. Constructing Artificial Intelligence -- 9. Computers and Politics in Cold War II -- 10. Minds, Machines, and Subjectivity in the Closed World -- Epilogue: Cyborgs in the World Wide Web.".
- catalog title "The closed world : computers and the politics of discourse in Cold War America / Paul N. Edwards.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".