Information Ages Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

Name: Information Ages Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
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ISBN: 9780801864124

ISBN-10: 0801864127

ISBN-13: 9780801864124

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael E. Hobart, Zachary S. Schiffman

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English