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"The Tail on the Hardware Dog": Historical Articulations of Computing Machinery, Software, and Services

  • Christoph Neubert (author)
Chapter of: There is no Software, there are just Services(pp. 21–37)

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Title"The Tail on the Hardware Dog"
SubtitleHistorical Articulations of Computing Machinery, Software, and Services
ContributorChristoph Neubert (author)
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
CopyrightChristoph Neubert
Publishermeson press
Published on2015-09-30
Long abstractThe emergence of service-oriented business models in the computer industry over the last 15 years is part of broader historical dynamics underlying the relations between hardware, software, and services. This article traces the changing configurations of this triad with a particular focus on the economic, technological, and social construction of “software” in exemplary contexts. The historical evidence opens analytical and critical perspectives on the current rearticulation of software in terms of “services.”
Page rangepp. 21–37
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Christoph Neubert

(author)
Postdoctoral Lecturer for Media History at Paderborn University

Christoph Neubert is a Postdoctoral Lecturer for Media History at the Department of Media Studies, University of Paderborn and senior member of the DFG Research Training Group “Automatisms.” His research interests include media theory and history, the epistemology of traffic and logistics, and the history of ecology.