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All Revolutions, like the computer revolution, are described and recorded before they happen. While computers were still inconspicuous adding machines, star-gazers and senior scientists took turns at providing unsolicited accounts of the New Age. But as soon as the revolution began to affect our lives, predictions on the shape of science and society in the age of the computer became cautious and rare.
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Kac, M., Rota, GC., Schwartz, J.T. (1992). Computing and Its History. In: Discrete Thoughts. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4775-9_17
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