Computing the Nordic Way: The Swedish Labour Movement, Computers and Educational Imaginaries from the Post-War Period to the Turn of the Millennium

Based on empirical material from Swedish reformist labour movement associations, this article illustrates how digital technology has been described as a problem (and sometimes solution) at different points in time. Most significant, for article, is the role that non-formal adult education played solving these problems. Computer repeatedly measure not only to increase technical knowledge, but also construe desirable (digital) citizens future. Problematisations of have changed over time, and discursive reconceptualisations can be existing spectrum between techno-utopian visions, where adaptation human seen task education, techno-dystopian forecasts, needed mobilise democratic control threatening machines. As such, goal one political control—either adapt people machines, or machines people.