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Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture. Ted Friedman
- Author: Ted Friedman
- Published Date: 30 Dec 2005
- Publisher: New York University Press
- Original Languages: English
- Format: Paperback::275 pages
- ISBN10: 0814727409
- ISBN13: 9780814727409
- Filename: electric-dreams-computers-in-american-culture.pdf
- Dimension: 152x 229x 17.78mm::394.63g Download: Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture
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Electric Dreams : Computers in American Culture eBook online. In the dream musical sequence, Edgar the computer dreams of electric sheep jumping an electric fence, whilst Miles dozes off to sleep. The scene a reference to author Philip K. Dick's (1968) science fiction novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Electric Dreams is a 1984 science fiction romantic comedy film set in San Francisco, California, that depicts a love triangle among a man, a woman and a personal computer.It was directed Steve Barron and stars Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, and the voice of Bud Cort. The film's credits dedicate it to the memory of UNIVAC I Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage’s “difference engine” in the nineteenth century to contemporary struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism. Friedman, in Electric Dreams - Computers In American Culture, discusses the social and political forces which led to the development of the personal computer and its uses. Friedman argues that technological invention does not inevitably determine how that technology will be used in the future.
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