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America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America's Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age

America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America's Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age

Burke, Colin B.

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General Reference20th Century United States HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1538151766
ISBN13: 9781538151761
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 4 2021
Pages: 389
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book narrates the development of science, sci/tech, and intelligence information systems and technologies in the United States from the beginning of World War II to the second decade of our century. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines of the 1940s created at Wild Bill Donovan's predecessors of the Central Intelligence Agency, to the rise of a huge international science information industry, and to the 1990's Open Access-Open Culture reformers' reactions to the commercialization of science information. Necessarily, there is much about the people, cultures, and politics that shaped the methods, systems, machines and protests. The reason for that is simple: The histories of technologies and methods are human histories. Science information's many lives were shaped by idiosyncrasies and chance, as well as by social, economic, political and technical 'forces'.

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