The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist

'''McCorduck, Pamela. The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist.''' New York: McGraw Hill, 1985.

Sequel to PM's Machines Who Think (1979), as a history of AI. See for a chatty, technophilic, entertaining placement of computers in Western history and their social context in the mid-1980s. Summarized by R. Latham in his editorial in FR #97, 9.11 (Dec. 1986): 29. (For a less optimistic view, see entry for C. Cockburn, this Category.)]

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