So often, when we hear about computing or computers, we think about disruption—some technological advancement that signals a radical break with all that came before. But what if that's wrong, or at the very least, incomplete? Today's guest, Devin Kennedy, argues that the twentieth-century history of computing is marked just as much by continuity as change—even between eras, like Fordism and post-Fordism, that we usually separate with a bright line. I promise you: it's the only book you'll read this year that'll take you all the way from Taylorism up to the 2010 Wall Street flash crash. Listen on to learn more.

So often, when we hear about computing or computers, we think about disruption—some technological advancement that signals a radical break with all that came before. But what if that's wrong, or at the very least, incomplete? Today's guest, Devin Kennedy, argues that the twentieth-century history of computing is marked just as much by continuity as change—even between eras, like Fordism and post-Fordism, that we usually separate with a bright line. I promise you: it's the only book you'll read this year that'll take you all the way from Taylorism up to the 2010 Wall Street flash crash. Listen on to learn more.

Devin Kennedy on Computing and Capitalism

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