In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
--Marshall McLuhan

Computers

a technology

issues include human-computer interaction artificial intelligence

examples include

the personal computer
- Alto
- Macintosh

the conceptual

FLEX
memex
Turing machine

Operating systems include

GNU
Unix

Sketchpad

pioneers include Alan Turing and John von Neumann