Computer World looks prophetic now, but its cover is more interesting when seen from 1981. Personal computing had not yet become an ordinary household fact, screens were not carried in pockets, and the visual language of digital life was still being invented. Kraftwerk put that emerging object directly on the front of the record. The sleeve shows a beige terminal against a dark ground, its screen occupied by the four members' heads. Instead of posing the band beside a computer, the design puts them inside it. Emil Schult, Kraftwerk's longtime visual collaborator, is credited with the album's graphics; exhibition documentation from the Bauhaus Imaginista project likewise identifies him as the cover designer. The machine on the front is often identified as resembling a Hazeltine 1500 terminal, but the safest description is exactly what the image gives us: a stylized terminal whose proportions and keyboard evoke contemporary business computing. That distinction matters because the cover's power does not depend on identifying a specific model. Its subject is the interface itself. Human identity has been converted into screen information. The band's faces are simplified, repeated and contained within the monitor, continuing Kraftwerk's long project of turning its members into images that sit somewhere between people, mannequins and machines. The typography reinforces the idea. Letterforms associated with machine-readable and technical printing make the title look less like expressive album lettering than information produced by a system. Inside, the concept expands. Günter Fröhling's photographs show mannequin-like representations of the four members engaged with studio equipment, continuing the controlled artificiality of The Man-Machine. The result is not a simple celebration of computers. The songs address calculation, communication, data and surveillance as parts of the same new world. The cover captures that ambiguity beautifully: the computer is clean and inviting, but the people have already been absorbed by its display.