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タイトル: | <Articles>Maikon and Cyber-Capitalism: Some Preliminary Remarks on a History of Computerization in Japan, 1960–1990 |
著者: | KNAUDT, Till |
著者名の別形: | クナウト, ティル |
キーワード: | Computer Capitalism Cybernetics Japan Marx Japan National Railways maikon BASIC |
発行日: | Mar-2021 |
出版者: | Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University |
誌名: | ZINBUN |
巻: | 51 |
開始ページ: | 95 |
終了ページ: | 122 |
抄録: | This paper presents a preliminary sketching of research in progress, namely how computers were designed in all best interest of serving human social interaction, how they grew out of their imagined functions, becoming the revolutionary tool of cybernetic capitalism. A few years after their introduction in the United States, in early 1980s Japan, microcomputers were developed, produced en masse, and sold to their first users. But to archive their use as an extension of the factory, a tool to gain unlimited access to what Marx has called the workers “social disposable time, ” the computer machine had to be constantly interconnected to the other “limbs” of the factory machine. The creation of the first computer network in Japan, the MARS seat reservation system was based on cybernetics, creating a complex system to automatize Japanese National Railways—a threat that to its trade union was beyond comprehension. Beyond automation, in the 1980s, a student computer club at Kyoto University created PLANET, a network of different home computers (maikon) to democratize computer use. Their humanistic approach created a standardized and unified system, creating a machine which operation would revolutionize its economic base. |
著作権等: | © Copyright March 2021, Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto University. |
DOI: | 10.14989/262934 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/262934 |
出現コレクション: | No.51 |
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