The computer metaphor: Bureaucratizing the mind
Science as CulturePublished 1 January 1989
Bruce J. Berman
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(1989). The computer metaphor: Bureaucratizing the mind. Science as Culture: Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 7-42.
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