Computers and Society - readings from the 60s and 70s

A couple of books to read, inspired by @elb’s comment at LGP-30 – The First Mini Computer?:

can be read online at the Internet Archive (if you’re logged in)
https://archive.org/details/mancomputer00keme

Secondly, as mentioned I think by Joy Rankin (noted in @elb’s comment for a more recent book)
https://archive.org/details/conversationalco0000orrw

Other recommendations for reading welcome!

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I think this one is thematically appropriate to the other two:

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I found it in the America House library in the city where I worked in 1980. It was enlightening reading for my first job as a team leader in software development.

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Kemeney, along with Kurtz are the originators of BASIC, and you’ll find this in the first manual (c1964):

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

Also this gem:

A program is a set of directions, a recipe, that is used to provide an answer to
some problem. It usually consists of a set of instructions to be performed or
carried out in a certain order. It starts with the given data and parameters as
the ingredients, and ends up with a set of answers as the cake. And, as with
ordinary cakes, if you make a mistake in your program, you will end up with
something else – perhaps hash!

Still quite apt today, I think.

-Gordon