<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Jim Cortada</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 10:08 AM Dick van Lente via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4808922907853871978">
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<span lang="NL"><a href="https://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/index.php?cPath=24&sort=2d" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ACM Books (morganclaypoolpublishers.com)</span></a>.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><i>Prophets of computing. Visions of society transformed by computing.</i><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:black;background:white">When electronic
digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> 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
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:black">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.<u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:black">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
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>James W. Cortada</div><div>Senior Research Fellow</div>
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