Computerization and Controversy
Subtitle: Value Conflicts and Social Choices
Contributors: Rob Kling (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Pr
Published: April 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 776
ISBN-13: 9780122243561
Subjects: General; Impact of computing & IT on society; Computers And Society; Computers - General Information; Computers and civilization; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: In the 1950s the public fear and fascination with computer systems focused on huge, room-sized machines, which some journalists called "giant brains."