Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness (Studies in Computing and Culture)

The author traces the emergence in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the belief that personal computers should be easy to use. He asks readers to consider the consequences of a computational culture grounded in the assumption that the average person does not need to know much, if anything, about the internal operations of the computers we have come to depend on--

• | Author: Michael L. Black
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 29, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1421443538
• | ISBN-13: 9781421443539