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This book provides the most comprehensive philosophical and cultural context for understanding information technologies that I have ever seen. -- N. Katherine Hayles, University of California This is an excellent and most welcome study of the discourse about computer communications, their narrativity as Coyne says, with particular attention to the classic theme of unity and fragmentation. -- Mark Poster, University of California

About the Author

Richard Coyne is Professor of Architectural Computing and Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews

"This book provides the most comprehensive philosophical and cultural context for understanding information technologies that I have ever seen." - N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles; "This is an excellent and most welcome study of the discourse about computer communications, their narrativity as Coyne says, with particular attention to the classic theme of unity and fragmentation." - Mark Poster, Professor of History and of Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine"