Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution - Brossura

Hobart, Michael E. E.

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ISBN 10: 0801864127 ISBN 13: 9780801864124

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Riassunto

A grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates.

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

The late twentieth century is trumpeted as the Information Age by pundits and politicians alike, and on the face of it, the claim requires no justification. But in Information Ages, Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman challenge this widespread assumption. In a sweeping and captivating history of information technology from the ancient Sumerians to the world of Alan Turing and John von Neumann, the authors show how revolutions in the technology of information storage—from the invention of writing approximately 5,000 years ago to the mathematical models for describing physical reality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the introduction of computers—profoundly transformed ways of thinking.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael E. Hobart is a professor of history at Bryant College. Zachary S. Schiffman is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801864127
• ISBN 13: 9780801864124
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile