The Computer Revolution

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Signed First edition. Publisher’s lime cloth with blue lettering. Corners softened with occasional spot to top edge, else fine. Dust jacket designed by Al Nagy priced $4.50 with rubbing to corner of hinges and rear panel. Very Good. Signed to the front endpaper. Berkeley was the editor of Computers and Automation, which was the first magazine of its type, and a cofounder of the Association for Computing Machine. His 1949 book Giant Brains articulated the computer as an analogue to human cognition and predicted the personal computer. This scarce 1962 work on developments in computer programming explores the implications of increased processing power on society and the workforce, as well as asking the philosophical question: can these machines ‘think’?