In Our Own Image: Creating the Computer

摘要: In the years following World War II, world appeared to be entering a new age, Atomic Age, portrayed as an era of prosperity fueled by energy “too cheap meter”. Automobiles, trains, planes, homes, industry would all draw their power from nuclear reactors various sizes and formats, society assume forms around possibilities ubiquitous, unlimited energy. Some those visions became reality, some turned into nightmares. Fifty later we on atomic power, but phrase “atomic age” is more likely than not evoke images winter desolation.