EAN: 9783034016711

HOW THE WORLD GOT INTO THE COMPUTER - DAVID GUG...

Around 1950  computers learned how to sort numbers and words. Immediately  many questions
arose. What could be done with such a machine? How should its space be set up and governed?
Moving the world into the computer meant rethinking many things. Bank transactions  spa guests
and terrorists  to name but a few  had to be formatted so that they could be dealt with in the
machine. In doing so  managers  programmers  and users created a digital world that offered new
ways of classifying things and organizing complex relations. Some people even linked machines 
combined data  and shared programs. And computers designed to sort personnel unexpectedly
became personal computers. This elegant essay explores how and why.

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