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Prophets of Computing 2022
- Dick van Lente:
Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing. ACM Books 50, ACM 2022, ISBN 978-1-4503-9817-6 - Dick van Lente:
Introduction: Prophets and Narratives. 1-30 - Ksenia Tatarchenko:
Man-Machine Dialogues: Computer Representations and Appropriations in the Soviet Union and the United States. 31-64 - David Schmudde:
Microcomputers for the Masses. Jack Tramiel and Commodore. 65-86 - Martin Schmitt:
Banking the Future of Banking: Savings Banks and the Digital Age in East and West Germany. 87-116 - James Sumner:
The United Kingdom: Going it Alone? 117-168 - Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry:
French National Paths Within a Global Computing Market. 169-200 - Dick van Lente:
Dutch Prophets: Pragmatic Optimism and Suppressed Fears. 201-246 - Gianluigi Negro, Hongzhe Wang:
Computing the New China. The Founding Fathers, the Maoist Way, and Neoliberalism, 1945?1986. 247-278 - Michael Homberg:
Digital India. Swadeshi-Computing in India since 1947. 279-324 - Miroslaw Sikora, Adam Dziuba:
Computers in the Shadow of Communism: The Polish People's Republic. 325-362 - Hirofumi Utsumi, Yoshinobu Takazakura:
Dreams of the Vanquished: Narratives of Postwar Japan. 363-398 - Dongwon Jo:
Computopia and Its Discontents: Dual Narratives in South Korea. 399-420 - Janet Toland:
Big Brother in New Zealand: Anticipating the Computer. 421-456 - Dick van Lente:
Conclusions: Patterns of Prophecy - Needs, Ambitions, and Doubts. 457-474
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