Product Description: This book critically explores forms and techniques of calculation that emerge with digital computation, and their implications. The contributors demonstrate that digital calculative devices matter beyond their specific functions as they progressively shape, transform and govern all areas of our life...read more

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Product Description: "Taming the Beast" is a rare blend of philosophical reflection, earnest wit, and hard-nosed guide. It casts a discerning eye on our love-hate affair with technology; reveals 27 ways to see, evaluate, and gain control over the electronic and mechanical extensions that have become such vital parts of our lives; and shows how we can choose new machines wisely for educational, business, and community use...read more

A critically acclaimed analysis of the pervasive implications of computer technology for everyday human life argues that computerization has limited the scope of choice, modes of control, and interaction with the real world and assesses the long-term impact on financial markets, corporate management, the military, and more. Reprint. UP.

Product Description: This volume explains how advances in computer technology will augment communication in person-to-person, organizational, and educational settings. It describes the convergence of virtual reality and group decision support, and how these will serve educational and organizational effectiveness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the technological developments that led to the development of computers, discusses the influence of the military and IBM, and surveys current competition

Product Description: A Selection of Papers from the EEC Conference on Social Experiments with Information Technology in Odense, Denmark, January 13-15, 1986

Product Description: Today's rapid growth in information technology has occurred without a full understanding of the human consequences of its use—on individuals, on organizations, and on society as a whole. As a result, initial expectations have frequently not been met, and a backlash has developed...read more