How the World Got into the Computer zines I’VE KEPT AN APRICOT ON

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Daniel Sannwald

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Fabulous Future

How the World Got into the Computer zines I’VE KEPT AN APRICOT ONAround 1950, computers learned how to sort numbers and words. Immediately, many questions arose. What could be done with such a machine? How should its space be set up and governed? Moving the world into the computer meant rethinking many things. Bank transactions, spa guests, and terrorists, to name but a few, had to be formatted so that they could be dealt with in the machine. In doing so, managers, programmers, and users created a digital world