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Watson, Ian.
The Universal Machine From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness / [electronic resource] : by Ian Watson. - XIV, 353 p. 110 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
What is a Universal Tool? -- Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine -- Office Automation -- Computers go to War -- Computers go to Work -- Deadheads & Propeller Heads -- The Computer gets Personal -- The Computer Revolution -- Weaving the Web -- Apple is Reborn -- Over the Horizon -- Resources -- Competitors -- About the Author -- Published books.
The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating... This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.
9783642281020
Computer science.
Mathematics.
Computer Science.
Computer Science, general.
Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.
QA75.5-76.95
004
The Universal Machine From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness / [electronic resource] : by Ian Watson. - XIV, 353 p. 110 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource.
What is a Universal Tool? -- Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine -- Office Automation -- Computers go to War -- Computers go to Work -- Deadheads & Propeller Heads -- The Computer gets Personal -- The Computer Revolution -- Weaving the Web -- Apple is Reborn -- Over the Horizon -- Resources -- Competitors -- About the Author -- Published books.
The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating... This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.
9783642281020
Computer science.
Mathematics.
Computer Science.
Computer Science, general.
Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.
QA75.5-76.95
004