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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0">Some of you may be interested in a collection of essays that I edited and that just came out with Morgan & Claypool/ACM:<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"><i>Prophets of computing. Visions of society transformed by computing.</i></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:#0C00;mso-fareast-language:#0C00" class="ContentPasted0">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;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:#0C00;mso-fareast-language:#0C00" class="ContentPasted0"> 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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#0C00;mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:#0C00;mso-fareast-language:#0C00" class="ContentPasted0">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.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Lato",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:#0C00;mso-fareast-language:#0C00" class="ContentPasted0">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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