B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data
- ISBN-10
- 1800641060
- ISBN-13
- 9781800641068
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 156
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Stephen Edward Robertson
Description
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 bac.
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