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Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Mass communications --- #SBIB:309H103 --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Internet --- Social aspects

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Information technology --- Communication and culture. --- Information society. --- Technologie de l'information --- Communication et culture --- Société informatisée --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- #SBIB:309H103 --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten

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Technology --- Stress (Psychology) --- #SBIB:309H103 --- Emotional stress --- Mental stress --- Psychological stress --- Tension (Psychology) --- Mental health --- Psychology --- Diathesis-stress model (Psychology) --- Life change events --- Type A behavior --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Technology - psychological aspects --- Technology - social aspects --- Stress (Psychology). --- Technology - psychological aspects. --- Technology - social aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Social aspects

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Mass media --- Forecasting. --- History. --- Technological innovations. --- Mass communications --- #SBIB:309H1000 --- #SBIB:309H103 --- #SBIB:309H1016 --- #SBIB:309H1720 --- Media: algemene en theoretische werken --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Media: socio-culturele aspecten (massamedia en maatschappij, met inbegrip van cultuurhistorische werken en werken over de maatschappelijke en politieke effecten van de (diverse) media) --- Informatiekunde, informatie management --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Forecasting --- History --- Technological innovations

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Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow the scope of our choices, our modes of control, and our experiences with the real world. Drawing on fascinating narratives from fields that range from military command, air traffic control, and international fund transfers to library cataloging and supermarket checkouts, Rochlin shows that we are rapidly making irreversible and at times harmful changes in our business, social, and personal lives to comply with the formalities and restrictions of information systems. The threat is not the direct one once framed by the idea of insane robots or runaway mainframes usurping human functions for their own purposes, but the gradual loss of control over hardware, software, and function through networks of interconnection and dependence. What Rochlin calls the computer trap has four parts: the lure, the snare, the costs, and the long-term consequences. The lure is obvious: the promise of ever more powerful and adaptable tools with simpler and more human-centered interfaces. The snare is what usually ensues. Once heavily invested in the use of computers to perform central tasks, organizations and individuals alike are committed to new capacities and potentials, whether they eventually find them rewarding or not. The varied costs include a dependency on the manufacturers of hardware and software--and a seemingly pathological scramble to keep up with an incredible rate of sometimes unnecessary technological change. Finally, a lack of redundancy and an incredible speed of response make human intervention or control difficult at best when (and not if) something goes wrong. As Rochlin points out, this is particularly true for those systems whose interconnections and mechanisms are so deeply concealed in the computers that no human being fully understands them.

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