Abstract
Historians are trained to see things in the context of change, but even a historian might find it hard to gain a sense of perspective on the technological changes sweeping over us these days. The machinery itself is evolving with astonishing speed, and the larger culture seems obsessed with the evolution. Articles on the latest high-tech stock miracle fill the business pages while advertisements for automobiles and sport leagues bear their World Wide Web addresses like badges of honor.
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
0252026853
Publication Date
2002
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Copyright © 2002 University of Illinois Press. This book chapter first appeared in Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Recommended Citation
Ayers, Edward L. "Technological Revolutions I Have Known." In Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities, edited by Orville Vernon Burton, 19-28. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.