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Mathematical Institute (CEMI), Moscow, read in person and returned May 2008,
chap. 2, 17. See CEMI-RAS Archive in bibliography.
Anatoly Kitov, “Kibernetika i upravlenie narodnym khoziastvom” [“Cybernetics
and the Management of the National Economy”], Kibernetiku—na sluzhbu Kommu-
nism (Cybernetics: In the Service of Communism), ed. Aksel’ Berg, 1 (1961): 207, 216.
Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011), 35, 34–39, 75–76.
Malinovsky, Pioneers of Soviet Computing, including excerpts of Glushkov’s
unpublished memoirs, “Vopreki avtoritetam” [“Despite the Authorities”], accessed
April 15, 2015, http://lib.ru/MEMUARY/MALINOWSKIJ/5.htm.
An early mention in English of the “paperless office” can be found in “The Office
of the Future,” Business Week 30 (2387) (1975): 48–70. See also Abigail Sellen and
Richard Harper, The Myth of the Paperless Office (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003); Paul A.
Marolla et al., “A Million Spiking-Neuron Integrated Circuit with a Scalable Com-
munication Network and Interface,” Science 8 (345) (2014): 668–673, accessed April
15, 2015, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6197/668.
Kapitonova and Letichevsky, Paradigm i idei akademika V. M. Glushkova, 18.
Ibid., 18.
Their friendship eventually became a family relationship. In the 1980s, Kitov’s
son Vladimir married Glushkov’s oldest daughter, Olga, who raised a grandson
named Viktor. Glushkov’s youngest daughter, Vera, also named Glushkov’s grand-
daughter Viktoria.
Author’s interview with Boris Nikolaevich Malinovsky, April 7, 2012.
The title of Glushkov’s last scholarly book was Fundamentals of Paperless Infor-
matics. Viktor Glushkov, Osnovi bezbumazhnoi informatiki (Moscow: Nauka, 1982),
Quoted in Gerovitch, “InterNyet,” 345; Viktor Glushkov, Kibernetika,
vychislitel’naia tekhnika, informatika. Izbrannye trudy (Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1990),
Gerovitch, “InterNyet,” 342–345.
Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2009), 275.
At least two politically distinct scholars have made this same basic point force-
fully in the last decade: Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the
World (New York: Penguin Group, 2008); Graeber, Debt: The First Five Thousand
Years.