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When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines' use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day.
As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences.
This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages-the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of "the future with computers."
商品描述(中文翻譯)
當電子數位電腦在第二次世界大戰後首次出現時，它們被視為一股革命性的力量。商業管理、工作世界、行政生活、民族國家，以及不久後的日常生活，都預期將因這些機器的使用而發生劇變。自那時以來，各種計算的預言不斷湧現，直到今天。
隨著計算技術超越美國和英國，這些預言出現於截然不同的經濟、政治和文化條件下。本書探討了這些期望的差異，評估了意想不到的共通點，並提出理解這些差異與趨同的方法。
本書考察了十三個國家，基於十種不同語言的資料來源——這是由一個國際學者團隊的努力成果。除了對辯論、政治變遷和大眾猜測的分析外，我們還展示了各種「與電腦共處的未來」的圖像表現。
