Beyond the closed world

Eden Medina's Cybernetic Revolutionaries (2011) continues that laudable trend and further expands the historiography of computing by exploring the circulation of science and technology between the global north and the global south. Even more than her predecessors, Medina places her story in a r...

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Published in:History and technology 2012-12, Vol.28 (4), p.407-413
Main Author: Kline, Ronald R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chile
Cold War
Cybernetics
Historical analysis
Historiography
History of technology
Political history
Politics
Science and technology
U.S.A
U.S.S.R
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Summary:Eden Medina's Cybernetic Revolutionaries (2011) continues that laudable trend and further expands the historiography of computing by exploring the circulation of science and technology between the global north and the global south. Even more than her predecessors, Medina places her story in a robust enough historical setting that the book contributes as much to the history of Chile as it does to the history of computing. Cybernetic Revolutionaries thus fulfills an aspiration in the history of technology of bringing technology into the realm of general history. I discuss these accomplishments in light of recent scholarship in the history of cybernetics and recent work that goes beyond Edwardss analytical framework of the closed world conflict between the U.S.A. and the USSR to study technology and politics in the Cold War. Reprinted by permission of Taylor and Francis Ltd
ISSN:0734-1512
1477-2620
DOI:10.1080/07341512.2012.756239