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The government machine [electronic resource] : a revolutionary history of the computer / Jon Agar.

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Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general-purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today's general-purpose computer is the apotheosis of the civil servant."--J...

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Main Author: Agar, Jon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Series:History of computing.
Subjects:
Computers > Government policy > Great Britain > History.
Public administration > Great Britain > Data processing > History.
Civil service > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain > History.
Civil service > Employees > Effect of technological innovations on > Great Britain > History.
Computers > Government policy.
Public administration > Data processing.
Great Britain.
History.

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Call Number: QA76.9.G68 A33 2003eb
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