UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC6379907
Format:
1 online resource (173 pages)
ISBN:
9781800640313
Content:
The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural historians. In contrast, Stephen Robertson's BC: Before Computers is a work which questions the idea that the mid-twentieth century saw a single moment of rupture. It is about all the things that we had to learn, invent, and understand - all the ways we had to evolve our thinking - before we could enter the information technology revolution of the second half of the twentieth century. Its focus ranges from the beginnings of data processing, right back to such originary forms of human technology as the development of writing systems, gathering a whole history of revolutionary moments in the development of information technologies into a single, although not linear narrative
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 In the beginning... -- 2 Sending messages: the post -- 3 Sending messages: electricity -- 4 Spreading the word -- 5 More about the alphabet -- 6 Organising information -- 7 Picture and sound -- 8 On physics and physiology -- 9 On perspective-and music -- 10 Calculation -- 11 Data processing -- 12 Ciphers -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index of topics -- Index of names -- Blank Page
Additional Edition:
Print version Robertson, Stephen B C, Before Computers Cambridge : Open Book Publishers,c2020 ISBN 9781800640306
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
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