Table of Contents

  1. Series page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface
  6. Prologue: An (Untold) Story of Economy and Computing
  7. I Looking Back
    1. 1 Heteromation: A Revised (His)story of Computing
    2. 2 The Logic of Wealth Accumulation: A Story of Political Economy
    3. 3 The Dynamics of Capitalist Change: A Story of Resilience
    4. 4 Possibilities and Predicaments: A Story of Stimulus
  8. II Varieties of Heteromated Labor
    1. 5 Communicative Labor: A Story of Separation
    2. 6 Cognitive Labor: A Story of Mental Toil
    3. 7 Creative Labor: A Story of Mental Magic
    4. 8 Emotional Labor: A Story of Caring
    5. 9 Organizing Labor: A Story of Commitment
  9. III Looking Ahead
    1. 10 Mechanisms of Participation: A Story of Rewards (and Punishments)
    2. 11 The Governance of Social Life: A Story of “Work” and Institutional Implosion
    3. 12 Utopias: A Story of Revolution and Reform
    4. Epilogue: The Story of Machines and Us
  10. References
  11. Index

List of Tables

  1. Table 1.1 Simon’s classification of views on the impact of computers on management

List of Illustrations

  1. Figure 3.1 The dynamics of change in capitalism. Source: authors.
  2. Figure 3.2 The cycle of individual change in capitalism. Source: authors.
  3. Figure 3.3 (a) Paris, 1968. Courtesy of Bruno Barbey. (b) San Francisco, 1967. Source: Associated Press.
  4. Figure 5.1 PewDiePie
  5. Figure 6.1 The bank of the future (Bank Innovation 2012).
  6. Figure 7.1 Steve Russell programmed Spacewar!
  7. Figure 7.2 A player-created software modification for World of Warcraft showing players where to position their characters in difficult contests (Sindragosa’s Lair is shown here).
  8. Figure 7.3 We snap a picture of modders at Disneyland, BlizzCon 2008. Source: authors.
  9. Figure 8.1 PARO, the robot seal. (Photo credit: Selma Šabanović)
  10. Figure 8.2 PARO units in a nursing home in Japan. Note the pacifiers and mats. (Photo credit: Selma Šabanović)
  11. Figure 10.1 The answer to a Health IQ quiz question

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