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The universal machine : from the dawn of computing to digital consciousness

Author:Ian Watson

Summary:This popular science history introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human lifetime, computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before. This book is about people and the changes computers have caused

Print Book, English, ©2012

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: Copernicus Books, New York, ©2012

Genre:History

Physical Description:xiv, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9783642281013, 9783642281020, 364228101X, 3642281028

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:804897727

Subjects:

Computer science

Computer science History Popular works

Informatique Histoire Ouvrages de vulgarisation

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

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