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Download or read book Computer written by Martin Campbell-Kelly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a history of the computer which now comes properly up to the ubiquitous age, with new chapters that look at globalization, platformitization and regulation, allowing readers to engage with the more recent takeover by computers in their historical perspective. With the growing ubiquity of computers, the subject is one of interest to many students and this will feature in history of science and technology courses, and world history courses as well as ones specifically on computing. Books on the history of computing tend to be quite technically or business focused, this covers the social and cultural history as well.