Computing across political divides
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Computing across political divides
Stephen M. Buck recounts efforts to introduce computer technology in four countries shaped by sharply different political histories: Communist Poland behind the Iron Curtain, Spain after Franco, Socialist Venezuela, and Brazil after World War II. The account places early computing alongside the political and human circumstances surrounding its arrival, presenting technology as part of a wider story of cross-border encounters and ideological tension. Its scope connects the dawn of the computer age with Central and South American and European settings, rather than treating computing as a purely technical subject.
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