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 | The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Inside Technology) (Reprint Edition) by Paul N. Edwards, Trevor Pinch (Series Editor), W. Bernard Carlson (Series Editor), Wiebe E. Bijker (Series Editor), Paul N. (Professor, University Of Michigan) Paperback, 462 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-262-55028-8 / 0262550288 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-55028-4 / 9780262550284 The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Pau | |