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Balkan Cyberia
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Author : Victor Petrov
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-06-13
Balkan Cyberia written by Victor Petrov and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-13 with Computers categories.
How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain—and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future. Bulgaria in 1963 was a communist country led by a centralized party trying to navigate a multinational Cold War. The state needed money, and it sought prestige. By cultivating a burgeoning computer industry, Bulgaria achieved both but at great cost to the established order. In Balkan Cyberia, Victor Petrov elevates a deeply researched, local story of ambition into an essential history of global innovation, ideological conflict, and exchange. Granted tremendous freedom by the Politburo and backed by a concerted state secret intelligence effort, a new, privileged class of technical intellectuals and managers rose to prominence in Bulgaria in the 1960s. Plugged in to transnational business and professional networks, they strove to realize the party’s radical dreams of utopian automation, and Bulgaria would come to manufacture up to half of the Eastern Bloc’s electronics. Yet, as Petrov shows, the export-oriented nature of the industry also led to the disruption of party rule. Technicians, now thinking with and through computers, began to recast the dominant intellectual discourse within a framework of reform, while technocratic managers translated their newfound political clout into economic power that served them well before and after the revolutions of 1989. Balkan Cyberia reveals the extension of economic and political networks of influence far past the reputed fall of communism, along with the pivotal role small countries played in geopolitical games at the time. Through the prism of the Bulgarian computer industry, the true nature of the socialist international economy, and indeed the links between capitalism and communism, emerge.
Balkan Cyberia
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Author : Victor Petrov
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-06-13
Balkan Cyberia written by Victor Petrov and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-13 with Computers categories.
How Bulgaria transformed the computer industry behind the Iron Curtain—and the consequences of that transformation for a society that dreamt of a brighter future. Bulgaria in 1963 was a communist country led by a centralized party trying to navigate a multinational Cold War. The state needed money, and it sought prestige. By cultivating a burgeoning computer industry, Bulgaria achieved both but at great cost to the established order. In Balkan Cyberia, Victor Petrov elevates a deeply researched, local story of ambition into an essential history of global innovation, ideological conflict, and exchange. Granted tremendous freedom by the Politburo and backed by a concerted state secret intelligence effort, a new, privileged class of technical intellectuals and managers rose to prominence in Bulgaria in the 1960s. Plugged in to transnational business and professional networks, they strove to realize the party’s radical dreams of utopian automation, and Bulgaria would come to manufacture up to half of the Eastern Bloc’s electronics. Yet, as Petrov shows, the export-oriented nature of the industry also led to the disruption of party rule. Technicians, now thinking with and through computers, began to recast the dominant intellectual discourse within a framework of reform, while technocratic managers translated their newfound political clout into economic power that served them well before and after the revolutions of 1989. Balkan Cyberia reveals the extension of economic and political networks of influence far past the reputed fall of communism, along with the pivotal role small countries played in geopolitical games at the time. Through the prism of the Bulgarian computer industry, the true nature of the socialist international economy, and indeed the links between capitalism and communism, emerge.
Visions Of A Digital Nation
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Author : Jacob Ward
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Visions Of A Digital Nation written by Jacob Ward and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain’s telecommunications infrastructure. When Margaret Thatcher sold British Telecom for £3.6 billion in 1984, it became not only, at the time, the largest stock flotation in history, but also a watershed moment in the rise of neoliberalism and deregulation. In Visions of a Digital Nation, Jacob Ward offers an incisive interdisciplinary perspective on how technology prefigured this pivot. Giving due consideration to the politicians, engineers, and managers who paved the way for this historic moment, Ward illustrates how the decision validated the privatization of public utilities and tied digital technology to free market rationales. In this examination of the national and, at times, global history of technology, Ward’s approach is sweeping. Utilizing infrastructure studies, environmental history, and urban and local history, Ward explores Britain’s nationalist and welfarist plans for a digital information utility and shows how these projects contested and adapted to the “market turn” under Margaret Thatcher. Ultimately, Visions of a Digital Nation compellingly argues that politicians did not impose neoliberalism top-down, but that technology, engineers, and managers shaped these politics from the bottom up.
Digitale Unabh Ngigkeit
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Author : Michael Homberg
language : de
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Release Date : 2022-11-30
Digitale Unabh Ngigkeit written by Michael Homberg and has been published by Wallstein Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with History categories.
Indiens Weg zur Technologienation nach 1947 – eine internationale Geschichte des digitalen Zeitalters. In den 1950er Jahren kamen die ersten elektronischen Computer nach Indien. Inzwischen stehen indische Programmierer für die Verflechtungen einer globalisierten Welt. Michael Homberg untersucht die lange, wechselvolle Geschichte des indischen Wegs ins digitale Zeitalter. Er zeigt, wie sehr das Aufkommen digitaler Expertise in Indien zugleich Ergebnis nationaler Anstrengungen und internationaler Kooperationen war. Schon in den ersten Jahren der Republik förderten Industrienationen wie die Bundesrepublik und Großbritannien, aber auch die USA und die UdSSR den Ausbau der Computertechnik und -ausbildung in Indien. Der Autor erforscht die Wurzeln dieser internationalen Förderprogramme in der Ära des Kalten Krieges und ergründet den wachsenden Wunsch in der indischen Computerindustrie nach "digitaler Unabhängigkeit" auf dem globalen IT-Markt ab den 1970er Jahren sowie den Siegeszug elitärer Programmierer im Silicon Valley zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Er analysiert die Voraussetzungen, Dynamiken und Folgen der globalen Austauschprozesse in Indien nach 1947 und dezentriert so die vorrangig westliche Perspektive der Computergeschichte und deren Meistererzählungen.
Balkan Network
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Author : Gregory M. Acuna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Balkan Network written by Gregory M. Acuna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Intelligence operations during the Balkan's War uncovers key info about Serbia Army's defenses that could destroy the Allied Forces.
The Book Of My Lives
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Author : Aleksandar Hemon
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-03-14
The Book Of My Lives written by Aleksandar Hemon and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict. Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a blissful Sarajevo, where his childhood was consumed by football, his adolescence by friends, movies and girls and where, as a young man, he poked at the pretensions of his beloved city with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, at twenty-seven, Hemon flew to Chicago for a month-long visit. A matter of weeks later Sarajevo was engulfed in an atrocious war. Hemon found himself an exile. He wouldn’t return home for five years and, when he did, he found his city irrevocably changed. ‘If you’ve never read Aleksandar Hemon, prepare to have your worldview deepened’ – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Anna Karenina Fix
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Author : Viv Groskop
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-10-05
The Anna Karenina Fix written by Viv Groskop and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph What should I do with my life? What if my love is not returned? Why do bad things happen? The answers to some of life's biggest questions are found not in trite self-help manuals but in the tough-love lessons explored in Russian literature. Here, Viv Groskop delves into the novels of history's deepest thinkers to discover enduring truths about how we should live. Whether you're new to the Russian classics or returning to old favourites, The Anna Karenina Fix will help salve your heartache by exploring the torments of a host of famous and infamous literary heroes and heroines. Think of it like this: they have suffered so that you don't have to . . . 'Enchanting. Groskop falls in love with the literature, her impressive knowledge of which she conveys with a charmingly breezy tone' Observer 'A beguiling tasting menu of some of the finest reading experiences of my life. Witty, likeable, and lighthearted, Viv Groskop invites us to embrace the work of these august Russian dead souls as belonging to us all' Lionel Shriver
Everyday Stalinism
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Author : Victor Petrov
language : en
Publisher: Macat Library
Release Date : 2017-07-15
Everyday Stalinism written by Victor Petrov and has been published by Macat Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with Soviet Union categories.
Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens.
Balkan Roulette
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Author : Dražan Gunjača
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Balkan Roulette written by Dražan Gunjača and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Ibm
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Author : James W. Cortada
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Ibm written by James W. Cortada and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Computers categories.
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue, ” an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success, surviving flatlining revenue and forced reinvention. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative, monumental history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. Cortada, a historian who worked at IBM for many years, describes IBM's technology breakthroughs, including the development of the punch card (used for automatic tabulation in the 1890 census), the calculation and printing of the first Social Security checks in the 1930s, the introduction of the PC to a mass audience in the 1980s, and the company's shift in focus from hardware to software. He discusses IBM's business culture and its orientation toward employees and customers; its global expansion; regulatory and legal issues, including antitrust litigation; and the track records of its CEOs. The secret to IBM's unequalled longevity in the information technology market, Cortada shows, is its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances and technologies.