[SIGCIS-Members] new book

[James Cortada]

Congratulations on this publication.  Having a dialogue about the role and
evolution of computing across the world is important to conduct.  It is
also a very difficult thing to do once you drop down one level of detail to
discuss issues, context, etc., but a necessary next step.  I look forward
to reading these chapters brought together closely within one volume.

Jim Cortada

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 10:08 AM Dick van Lente via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Dear SIGCIS,
>
> Some of you may be interested in a collection of essays that I edited and
> that just came out with Morgan & Claypool/ACM:
>
> ACM Books (morganclaypoolpublishers.com)
> <https://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/index.php?cPath=24&sort=2d>
> .
>
>
> *Title & description:*
>
>
> *Prophets of computing. Visions of society transformed by computing.*
>
>
> *When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they
> appeared as a revolutionary force.* Business management, the world of
> work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life
> were expected to change dramatically with these machines’ use. Ever since,
> diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the
> present day.
>
> As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from
> strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This
> volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected
> commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and
> convergences.
>
> This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten
> different languages—the effort of an international team of scholars. In
> addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular
> speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of
> "the future with computers."
>
> Best regards to all,
>
>
> Dick van Lente
>
>
> Dick van Lente
>
> Book Review Editor * Technology & Culture*
>
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-- 
James W. Cortada
Senior Research Fellow
Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
jcortada at umn.edu
608-274-6382
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