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Has anyone read #MitPressPlatformStudiesSeries book "Now the Chips Are Down" by Alison Gazzard?
I can't read computer history anymore that doesn't incorporate the critical lens that @LaineNooney introduced with their book "The Apple II Age": the understanding that home computers were introduced at the dawn of Neoliberalism, in a context of specific social and economic pressures.
Does Gazzard's book contain any of that perspective?
Conversely, has any other historian since picked up Nooney's perspective? (I'm aware of the very excellent writings of @histoftech and Nathan Ensmenger.)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552028/now-the-chips-are-down/
https://archive.org/details/BBCHorizon19771978NowTheChipsAreDown