ISBN:
9781800640313
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (156 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Robertson, Stephen Edward, - 1946- B C, before computers
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Information technology History
;
Information technology-History
;
Information technology-History
;
Electronic books
;
Digitalisierung
;
Internet
;
Datenverarbeitung
;
Neue Technologie
;
Technischer Fortschritt
Abstract:
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.
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