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100 1  Agar, Jon.
245 14 The government machine : |ba revolutionary history of the computer / |cJon Agar.
260    Cambridge, Mass. : |bMIT Press, |c2003.
300    viii, 554 p. : |bill. ; |c24 cm.
440  0 History of computing
504    Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-533) and index.
505    Introduction: The State of Knowledge -- 1. The Machineries of Government -- 2. "The Parent of a Totally Different Order of Things": Charles Trevelyan and the Civil Service as Machine -- 3. "Chaotic England" and the Organized World: Official Statistics and Expert Statisticians -- 4. "One Universal Register": Fantasies and Realities of Total Knowledge -- 5. The Office Machinery of Government -- 6. An Information War -- 7. The Military Machine? -- 8. Treasury Organization and Methods and the Computerization of Government Work -- 9. Privacy and Distrust -- 10. Computers and Experts in the Hollowed-Out State, 1970-2000 -- Conclusions and International Perspectives.
650  0 Computers |xGovernment policy |zGreat Britain |xHistory.
650  0 Public administration |zGreat Britain |xData processing |xHistory.
650  0 Civil service |xEffect of technological innovations on |zGreat Britain |xHistory.
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