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Books I've read (February-April 2017)

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. I read the four books below a bit more than a year ago, between mid-February and mid-April 2017. All four books relate to technology and its use in a social context but they also differ in various ways, for example in how much they relate specifically to computing. The asterisks (*) represent the number of quotes that can be found further down in this blog post.  Here's the previous blog post  about books I have read. **** I got my copy of  Pär   Blomkvist and Arne Kaijser 's   (1998) edited book " Den konstruerade världen: Tekniska system i ett historiskt perspektiv  [The constructed world: Technical systems in historical perspectives] directly in my hand from Pär Blomkvist 10 or so years ago. It has thus taken quite some time for me to come around to reading it, but the fact that it was written 20 years ago wasn't a big problems since it for the most part contains historical analyses of various aspects of the emergence and growth of Large Technica...