Acknowledgements
1 Universal Machines
2 The Blue Pig
3 Prolific Piglets:Computers everywhere
4 A World Out of Control
5 Babbage:A‘Difference Engine’ that made a difference?
6 The Analytical:Engine
7 Accidental Information
8 Information on the Masses
9 The Spur ofWar
10 Zuse in Nazi Germany
11 American Speed
12 Turing in Secret Britain
13 Foundations Shakell
14 Mathematics:Truth or game?
15 Crisis L00llls
16 Turing and the Decision Problem
17 Government Codes
18 The Computer
19 Minding the Gap:Many universal machines
20 Cold War Minds