TY - BOOK ID - 142818539 TI - The Switch : an off and on history of digital humans PY - 2023 SN - 9781517915407 9781517915391 PB - Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press DB - UniCat KW - Human-computer interaction KW - Computer simulation KW - Computers KW - Avatars (Virtual reality) KW - History KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142818539 AB - "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"-- ER -