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Abstract

Author?: Personal Computers with Personal Meanings. Publisher, Year.

  1. Introduction
    • children use the computer in their process of world and identity construction
    • development of fundamental conceptual categories, ways of looking at the world
    • children set apart from the generation that grew up without the technology
    • adults are more settled and might be afraid of the new, protected by familiar
    • computer can be a provocation to reflect this taken-for-granted status
    • stimulation to reconsider ideas and rethink the way to look at the world
    • relationship with a computer can influence people's conceptions of themselves
    • can be the basis for new aesthetic values, rituals, philosophy and cultural forms
  2. Birth of a Personal Computer Culture, 1975
    • impersonal system concidered as a threat (billing errors, lost airplane reservations)
    • small computer kit available for $420 leeds to increase in personal computers at home
    • first generation used for teaching French, helping with financial planning and taxes etc.
    • not so important what the computer can do, but how it made people feel
    • being a member of a technical culture instead of being afraid of mathematics etc.
    • lowers barrier between mathematical professionals and users interested in technic
  3. Distinction between Tools and Machines (Marx)
    • new feeling of empowerment, crossing frontier that separates tinkering from technology
    • tools are extensions of their users
    • machines impose thier own rhythm, rules, on the opeople who work with them
    • working with rhythms that we do not experience as our own (the system)