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Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution by Hobart, Mi
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- 9780801864124
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Information Ages : Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
- Item Height
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- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Width
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- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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A grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title 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.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801864127
ISBN-13
9780801864124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1684337
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Information Ages : Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
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T14.5
Reviews
Grand intellectual history... What Hobart and Schiffman have achieved through this cheery analysis is one of the more decisive refutations of the various 'End of History' arguments that have been floated over the past fifteen years. Information 'ages,' they pun, but history lives forever., "Grand intellectual history... What Hobart and Schiffman have achieved through this cheery analysis is one of the more decisive refutations of the various 'End of History' arguments that have been floated over the past fifteen years. Information 'ages,' they pun, but history lives forever." -- Matthew DeBord, Salon, "Far reaching and eloquent... Hobart and Schiffman follow the dreams, trials, and successes of such innovators as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Galileo, Turing, and von Neumann as they took advantage of three distinct ages of information." -- Publishers Weekly, Far reaching and eloquent... Hobart and Schiffman follow the dreams, trials, and successes of such innovators as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Galileo, Turing, and von Neumann as they took advantage of three distinct ages of information.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: Information Past and Present Part I: The Classical Age of Literacy Chapter 1. Orality and the Problem of Memory Chapter 2. Early Literacy and List Making Chapter 3. Alphabetic Literacy and the Science of Classification Part II: The Modern Age of Numeracy Chapter 4. Printing and the Rupture of Classification Chapter 5. Numeracy, Analysis, and the Reintegration of Knowledge Chapter 6. The Analytical World Map Part III: The Contemporary Age of Computers Chapter 7. Analysis Uprooted Chapter 8. The Realm of Pure Technique Chapter 9. Information Play Conclusion: The Two Cultures and the Arrow of Time Notes Bibliographical Essay Index
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Social Aspects / General, History, Information Technology
Dewey Decimal
303.48/34
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Science
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