At Home With Computers

Author : Elaine Lally
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184143

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New technologies are profoundly reshaping the world around us. Home computers - unheard of two decades ago - now play an intimate role as personal possessions in many people's lives. For some, computer games may be vital to winding-down after a busy day, while for others the home computer represents only work or is a means through which to socialize in cyberspace. Powerfully symbolic of both future and present trends, computers are increasingly seen as essential home purchases. This book is the first sustained examination of the revealing role computers play in our domestic lives. Do computers cause or help to resolve arguments? What role does gender play in negotiating their use? Who spends the most time with the computer? How does the importance of home computers change as we move from childhood through careers to retirement? Drawing upon topical theories from material culture, technology and consumption studies, Lally traces the social life of these machines and provides unique insights into the many different ways in which they are transformed into highly personal possessions. The result is an absorbing account of everyday life in the information age. This book will be of interest to anthropologists, geographers, sociologists and anyone who wants to get to know how their home computer affects their family life.

Author : Alex Wiltshire
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262044011

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Home Computers by Alex Wiltshire Pdf

A celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk. Today, people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them “phones.” A generation ago, people were amazed that the processing power of a mainframe computer could be contained in a beige box on a desk. This book is a celebration of those early home computers, with specially commissioned new photographs of 100 vintage computers and a generous selection of print advertising, product packaging, and instruction manuals. Readers can recapture the glory days of fondly remembered (or happily forgotten) machines including the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple Lisa, and Mattel Aquarius—traces of the techno-utopianism of the not-so-distant past. Home Computers showcases mass-market success stories, rarities, prototypes, one-offs, and never-before-seen specimens. The heart of the book is a series of artful photographs that capture idiosyncratic details of switches and plugs, early user-interface designs, logos, and labels. After a general scene-setting retrospective, the book proceeds computer by computer, with images of each device accompanied by a short history of the machine, its inventors, its innovations, and its influence. Readers who inhabit today's always-on, networked, inescapably connected world will be charmed by this visit to an era when the digital revolution could be powered down every evening.

Author : Frank Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983-09-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : PSU:000015929334

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Without Me You're Nothing by Frank Herbert Pdf

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781640094581

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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry Pdf

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune). "A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones." Wendell Berry first challenged the idea that our advanced technological age is a good thing when he penned "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" in the late 1980s for Harper's Magazine, galvanizing a critical reaction eclipsing any the magazine had seen before. He followed by responding with "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine." Both essays are collected in one short volume for the first time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 1165 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Early Home Computers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amy H. Rathbun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015052667394

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Young Children's Access to Computers in the Home and at School in 1999 and 2000 by Amy H. Rathbun Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428925670

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Young children's access to computers in the home and at school in 1999 and 2000 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary G. Bitter,Roger S. Walker,Gerald Luecke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0895120976

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How to Feel at Home with a Home Computer by Gary G. Bitter,Roger S. Walker,Gerald Luecke Pdf

Author : Janice S. Ancarrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : UIUC:30112105066168

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Use of Computers in Home Study by Janice S. Ancarrow Pdf

Author : Janice S. Ancarrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Alternative education
ISBN : UCR:31210024865758

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Use of Computers in Home Study by Janice S. Ancarrow Pdf

Author : David Pogue
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1491981911

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Windows 10 by David Pogue Pdf

"Microsoft's last Windows version, the April 2018 Update, is a glorious Santa sack full of new features and refinements. What's still not included, though, is a single page of printed instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back to help you make sense of it all--with humor, authority, and 500 illustrations."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : C. C. Gotlieb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Computers
ISBN : IND:30000100639834

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Computers in the Home by C. C. Gotlieb Pdf

Author : Joseph B. Giacquinta,Jo Anne Bauer,Jane E. Levin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521407842

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Beyond Technology's Promise by Joseph B. Giacquinta,Jo Anne Bauer,Jane E. Levin Pdf

This book, first published in 1994, examines how children use home computers, and proposes steps to facilitate a better educational use of available technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Economic indicators
ISBN : PSU:000031909983

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Statistical Brief by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scott R. Tilley
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0888821506

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How to Make Money with Your Home Computer by Scott R. Tilley Pdf

How to Make Money with Your Home Computer contains all the pointers necessary to make your computer work for you. Learn how to start your own home-based computer business, discover which hardware and software you need and explore suggestions for more than 150 businesses you can establish. Scott R. Tilley shows you how to provide information and services that really sell and peeks ahead at future business opportunities. Learn everything you need to know to transform your expertise into a money making venture.