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'Computers and Society' explores the history and impact of modern technology on everyday human life, considering its benefits, drawbacks, and repercussions. Particular attention is paid to new developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the issues that have arisen from our complex relationship with AI.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Technology, Computers, and Society -- The Industrial Society -- The Telephone and Society-A Case Study -- The Telephone Culture -- The Telephone and Social Organization -- Computers, Communications, and the Information Society -- The Global Network and the Ethos of the Information Society -- Information Society 2000 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 2 A Brief History of Computers -- Charles Babbage and Computing Engines -- The First Electronic Computers -- Computer Generations -- Project Whirlwind, SAGE, and IBM System/360 -- Computer-Serviced Subcultures -- Minicomputers and the Personal Computer -- Fourth-Generation Languages and Software -- Supercomputers and the Fifth Generation -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 3 Computer Culture -- Industrial Culture -- The Culture of Science -- The Human-Computer Interface and the Use of Information -- User Roles and Computer Environments -- Computer User Groups -- The Software Environment -- Computer Magazines -- Bulletin Boards and Information Services -- Electronic Mail and Online Conferences -- The Computer and the Arts -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 4 Computers in Organizations -- Organizations in the Information Society -- Data and Information -- Information Systems and Organization Structure -- Designing Information Systems -- The Data Processing Department -- System Operation and Software Engineering -- The Information Center -- Information Resource Management -- Networks -- The Electronic Office -- System Security -- Innovation and Change -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 5 Computers and Education -- Computers in Homes and Schools -- Computers and Learning in the University Environment -- Information Gateways -- New Models, New Metaphors, and New Methods.

Global Networks takes up the host of issues raised by the new networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and organizations in different countries and on different continents. The twenty-one contributions focus on the implementation, application, and impact of computer-mediated communication in a global context. Previously limited to scientific research, global networks now have an impact on social, educational, and business communications. Individuals with a personal computer, a modem, and some simple software can join a new social community that is based on interest, not location. Global Networks, which was written largely with the assistance of the internet, provides an understanding of the issues, opportunities, and pitfalls of this new social connectivity. It looks at how -networking technology can support and augment communication and collaboration from such perspectives as policy constraints and opportunities, language differences, cross-cultural communication, and social network design. Contributors: Linda M. Harasim. John Quarterman. Howard Rheingold. Anne Branscomb. Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler. Marvin Manheim. Hiroshi Ishii. Jan Walls. Michael Kirby and Catherine Murray. Andrew Feenberg. Robin Mason. Margaret Riel. Beryl Bellman, Alex Jeffrey Shapard. Lucio Teles. Howard Frederick. Mitchell Kapor and Daniel Weitzner. Shumpei Kumon and lzurni Aizu. Robert Jacobson