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Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency.The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans (U Minnesota Press, 2023) traces the sudden rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. By chronicling the rapid growth of binary switching since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar contends that there is no human activity as common today as pushing a button or flipping a switch--the deceptively simple act of turning something on or off. More…
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