Information Ages | Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

Michael E. Hobart (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0801864127 / ISBN 13: 9780801864124

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Information Ages | Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution | Michael E. Hobart (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2000 | Johns Hopkins University Press | EAN 9780801864124 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 106358372

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.

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.

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Titolo: Information Ages | Literacy, Numeracy, and ...
Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu