Format:
1 Online-Ressource (156 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781800640313
,
9781800641044
,
9781800641051
,
9781800641068
,
9781800640306
,
1800640307
,
1800640315
,
1800641044
,
1800641052
,
1800641060
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 bac
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:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, hardback ISBN 978-1-80064-030-6
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, paperback ISBN 978-1-80064-029-0
Language:
English
Keywords:
Digitale Daten
;
Informationstechnik
;
Electronic books
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Author information:
Robertson, S. E. 1946-
