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the 1970s and 1980s computers were actively introduced to children in the US, France, and the Soviet Union through “computer literacy” programs. Pioneers of computer literacy believed that the lay public, and particularly children, needed to "know" computers
and they were preoccupied with forming the citizens of the information age. Their programs aimed not just to teach instrumental skills for operating the machines but to develop new ways of thinking and being. According to one French television program, computers
were tools for people “to dream and build lives with.” Here was an artifact imagined to be integral to individual lives and identities, as integral as the traditional instruments of reading and writing. In this talk I compare the sociotechnical imaginaries
of the computer literate citizen in the cultural and political context of the US, France, and former Soviet Union. What did it mean to "know" the computer and in what futures would this knowledge have currency? This look at the moment in history when the
computer "went public" is an invitation to reflect upon the nature of our own knowledge of the computer and the ontological and normative constitutions of the human in today's computerized world.</font></span></div>
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</font></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a PhD candidate in History of Science and Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Harvard and in Philosophy at the Sorbonne
in Paris. Born in Kiev, Ukraine two weeks before the Chernobyl disaster and growing up at the heart of the Silicon Valley in the 1990s, she has always wondered about the profound role of science and technology--and the imaginations thereof--in the formation
of contemporary human identities, sensibilities and social orders. Margo's dissertation is devoted to the study of this question by investigating comparatively the visions of the computer literate citizen of the information age. Her other projects explore
contemporary sociotechnical imaginaries of technology entrepreneurs and how these draw upon and resonate in wider cultures, in the US as well as in Western and Eastern Europe. After graduation Margo would like to use her free time to study comparatively perspectives
of the human subject in Eastern Orthodox and Western philosophical and literary traditions and hope to work on STS projects in a lab-like collaborative environment with innovative outputs and contemporary relevance.</span></div>
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