<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br></div>Might be of interest as this is an outlet not everyone in the list reads regularly <div>Happy Christmas </div><div>Bernardo </div><div>Northumbria </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="citation__title" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.125rem; margin: 8px 0px; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(28, 29, 30); display: inline-block;">Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–83</h1><div class="loa comma visible-xs mobile-authors loa-authors-trunc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; font-size: 0.875rem;"><div class="comma__list" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="accordion-tabbed__tab-mobile accordion__closed" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-style: none; display: inline-block; position: relative;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Flandreau%2C+Marc" class="author-name accordion-tabbed__control" data-id="am1" data-db-target-for="am1" aria-controls="am1" aria-haspopup="true" id="am1_Ctrl" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-skip: objects; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); text-decoration: none; display: inline; width: 100%; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.875rem; margin-bottom: 4px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marc Flandreau<span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-mail_outline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: inline; transition: transform 0.5s; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px; float: none; font-size: 1rem; vertical-align: middle; font-family: icomoon !important;"></span></span></a><span class="comma-separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: static; display: inline-block; padding-right: 4px; color: rgb(139, 139, 139); box-shadow: none;">, </span><span class="accordion-tabbed__tab-mobile accordion__closed" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-style: none; display: inline-block; position: relative;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Legentilhomme%2C+Geoffroy" class="author-name accordion-tabbed__control" data-id="am2" data-db-target-for="am2" aria-controls="am2" aria-haspopup="true" id="am2_Ctrl" role="button" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-skip: objects; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); text-decoration: none; display: inline; width: 100%; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.875rem; margin-bottom: 4px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Geoffroy Legentilhomme</span></a></span></span></div><div class="epub-sections" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; color: rgb(118, 118, 118); line-height: 1.5;"><div class="epub-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.15;"><span class="epub-state" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(139, 139, 139); display: inline-block; white-space: pre;">First published: </span><span class="epub-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(28, 29, 30); display: inline-block;">22 December 2021</span></div><div class="epub-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.15;"><a class="epub-doi" aria-label="Digital Object Identifier" href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13134" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-skip: objects; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 600; word-wrap: break-word;">https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13134</a></div></div></div></div><div><br><h3 class="article-section__header main abstractlang_en main" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 1.5625rem; line-height: 1.2; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; display: inline-block; color: rgb(65, 66, 70); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Abstract</h3><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 29, 30); color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div class="article-section__content en main" style="font-size: 1rem; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(28, 29, 30); color: rgb(28, 29, 30); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 16px;">British capitalism was a knowledge economy that lived on reliable numerical information. We argue that human computers and the algorithms they used played a vital intermediation role and supported the growth of the British capital market, because they resolved digital information asymmetries. Given the lack of an archive for ‘Cyberpunk Victoria’, we demonstrate the computers’ role as financial intermediaries by identifying their imprint on the production of data by a prominent numerical factory, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Investor's Monthly Manual</i>, a companion publication of the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Economist</i>. Our study underscores the import of digital mechanization and the relevance of human cybernetics to the development of financial capitalism.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 16px;"><br></p></div><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>