Affiliation:
1. The British Library, London, UK
Abstract
In the early 1980s the computer entered the British home in significant numbers for the first time as many thousands of people purchased their first personal ‘microcomputer’. In this paper I explore the educational character of the home computer boom, a response to unease over the impact of new information technologies. Media, government, social movements and computer manufacturers constituted a systematic effort to enhance the public understanding of a new technology that was anticipated to change the world.
Subject
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology,Communication
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