The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s by Reem Hilu (review).
The main focus of the article is Reem Hilu's book, *The Intimate Life of Computers*, which examines the rise of home computers in the 1980s and their impact on family life and personal identity in the United States. The author explores how these technologies became integrated into daily domestic act...
| Publicado en: | Technology & Culture Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 1180 - 1183 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Oct2025
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