- A Computer Perspective
- A sequence of 20th century ideas, events, and artifacts from the history of the information machine.
- Hardcover 1973 / Paperback 1990
- The Computer and the Mind
- In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- The Cultural Logic of Computation
In The Cultural Logic of Computation, David Golumbia, who worked as a software designer for more than ten years, argues that computers are cultural “all the way down”—that there is no part of the apparent technological transformation that is not shaped by historical and cultural processes, or that escapes existing cultural politics. The Cultural Logic of Computation provides a needed corrective to the uncritical enthusiasm for computers common today in many parts of our culture.
- Hardcover 2009