TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Ted
TI  - Electric dreams: computers in American culture 
SN  - 0814727395 (cloth : alk. paper)
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Computers and civilization
KW  - Computers
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - ordenadores y civilización
KW  - Sociedad de la información
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255) and index; Introduction : the dialectic of technological determinism -- Part I. Mainframe culture. Charles Babbage and the politics of computer memory -- Ideologies of information processing: from analog to digital -- Filming the "electronic brain" -- Part II. The personal computer. The many creators of the personal computer -- Apple's 1984 -- The rise of the simulation game -- Part III. The interpersonal computer. Imagining cyberspace -- Dot-com politics -- Beyond Napster -- Linux and utopia -- Conclusion : cybertopia today
ER  -