| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Dawn of Computing -- Marvelous Machines -- Computers Go to War -- Computers and Big Business -- Deadheads and Propeller Heads -- The Computer Gets Personal -- Weaving the Web -- Dotcom -- The Second Coming -- Web 2.0 -- Digital Underworld -- Machines of Loving Grace -- Digital Consciousness |
| Summary |
The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating ... This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before |
| Analysis |
Computer science |
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Mathematics |
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Computer Science, general |
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Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology |
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wetenschap |
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science |
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computerwetenschappen |
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computer sciences |
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Information and Communication Technology (General) |
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Informatie- en communicatietechnologie (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Computer science -- History -- Popular works
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Mathematics.
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Electronic Data Processing
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Mathematics
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computer science.
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data processing.
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applied mathematics.
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mathematics.
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COMPUTERS -- History.
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Informatique.
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Computer science
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783642281020 |
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3642281028 |
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364228101X |
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9783642281013 |
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1280793325 |
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9781280793325 |
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