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No Safety in Numbers: How the Computer Quantified Everything and Made People Risk-Aversive

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This work addresses the social and cultural aspects of computing. Its perspective is that computers encode the world mathematically and statistically, and that this knowledge has resulted in an increased awareness of risks in all sectors of social life, making people avoid risk.

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No Safety in Numbers: How the Computer Quantified Everything and Made People Risk-Aversive 1996, Hampton Press (NJ)

ISBN-13: 9781572730625

Hardcover