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"The Switch traces the rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. Chronicling its rapid growth since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar moves beyond a technical history to offer a cultural and political analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives has profoundly reshaped modern society"--

Human --- Computer interaction --- History --- Avatars (Virtual reality) --- Human-computer interaction --- Computer simulation --- History.