Origin stories -- Designing the button -- Analogs and analogies -- The point of touch -- Counting on the body -- Darth Vader's nipples -- The keyboard's checkered past -- Human types -- Chording and coding -- The archaeology of qwerty -- The toys of Dionysus -- Pinball wizards -- The control panel of democracy -- Switching philosophies -- Pistolgraphs -- First-person shooters
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 30, 2023)
