Placeholder text

Go to cart

Information Ages

Information Ages

0 - Default Title
Description
The late twentieth century is trumpeted as the Information Age by pundits and politicians alike, and on the face of it, the claim requires no justification. But in Information Ages, Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman challenge this widespread assumption. In a sweeping and captivating history of information technology from the ancient Sumerians to the world of Alan Turing and John von Neumann, the authors show how revolutions in the technology of information storage-from the invention of writing approximately 5,000 years ago to the mathematical models for describing physical reality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the introduction of computers-profoundly transformed ways of thinking.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2000-05-26
Publication Date:
2000-04-14
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0801864127
ISBN13:
9780801864124
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
525 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out