When computers became dangerous

I came across an interesting article by Lars Ilshammar entitled When Computers Became Dangerous: The Swedish Computer Discourse of the 1960s. Lars does an excellent job in laying out contemporary technology history in Sweden. The work seems mainly to be based upon his PhD (Offentlighetens nya rum. Teknik och Politik i Sverige 1969-1999 in 2002).

Lars has written lots of good stuff but most of it is in Swedish (Among my favourites 404 â?? utflykter i glömskans landskap which he wrote together with Ola Larsmo in 2005) so finding an article in English is indeed a bonus.

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