By now, you're probably sick of reading articles about men, women, and technology. Let me clue you in.
Computers are tools.
They are machines. They are important in a pragmatic sense, for what they allow a person to accomplish. Users are passive, users are powerless, and just possessing a roomful of computers is irrelevant. The two books reviewed this month address the problem of women, power, and technology in quite different ways. Although this 1996 collection is somewhat dated by Internet standards, its contributors address ongoing issues with which we continue to struggle.