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How the World Got into the Computer zines Control – or the absenceAround 1950, computers learned how to sort numbers and words. Immediately, many questions arose. What could be done with such a machine? How should its space be set up and governed? Moving the world into the computer meant rethinking many things. Bank transactions, spa guests, and terrorists, to name but a few, had to be formatted so that they could be dealt with in the machine. In doing so, managers, programmers, and users created a digital world