Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–83
研究19世纪英国资本主义中人类计算机作为金融中介的角色，通过分析《投资者月刊》的数据生产，揭示数字机械化对金融资本主义发展的作用。
Abstract British capitalism was a knowledge economy that lived on reliable numerical information. We argue that human computers and the algorithms they used played a vital intermediation role and supported the growth of the British capital market, because they resolved digital information asymmetries. Given the lack of an archive for ‘Cyberpunk Victoria’, we demonstrate the computers’ role as financial intermediaries by identifying their imprint on the production of data by a prominent numerical factory, the Investor's Monthly Manual , a companion publication of the Economist . Our study underscores the import of digital mechanization and the relevance of human cybernetics to the development of financial capitalism.