The Switch an off and on history of digital humans / Jason Puskar.
| Author/creator | Puskar, Jason Robert |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023] |
| Description | x, 330 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Origin stories -- Designing the button -- Analogs and analogies -- The point of touch -- Counting on the body -- Darth Vader's nipples -- The keyboard's checkered past -- Human types -- Chording and coding -- The archaeology of qwerty -- The toys of Dionysus -- Pinball wizards -- The control panel of democracy -- Switching philosophies -- Pistolgraphs -- First-person shooters. |
| Abstract | "The Switch traces the rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. Chronicling its rapid growth since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar moves beyond a technical history to offer a cultural and political analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives has profoundly reshaped modern society"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023017136 |
| ISBN | 9781517915407 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781517915391 (hbk.) |