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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
H P Alesso; C F Smith |
| ISBN: | 9780470118818 0470118814 |
| OCLC Number: | 137325000 |
| Description: | xiii, 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Internet -- World Wide Web -- Information technology -- Microprocessor -- Artificial intelligence -- Ubiquitous computing -- Personal computer -- Technology history -- Software. |
| Responsibility: | H. Peter Alesso and Craig F. Smith. |
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Abstract:
"In their fascinating analysis of the recent history of information technology, H. Peter Alesso and Craig F. Smith reveal the patterns in discovery and innovation that have brought us to the present tipping point... A generation from now, every individual will have personally tailored access to the whole of knowledge...
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Entertaining, Informative, and Insightful
I found this book to be entertaining, informative, and insightful. It covers information technology history and draws relationships between many different aspects of inventing and across various fields of computer science. By identifying patterns of innovations, it shows how major trends developed for...
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I found this book to be entertaining, informative, and insightful. It covers information technology history and draws relationships between many different aspects of inventing and across various fields of computer science. By identifying patterns of innovations, it shows how major trends developed for information processing over the past half century and it follows the adventures of the dedicated inventors who pursued them. In addition, it forecasts how some of these trends might progress over the next decade. Like the TV-Series hosted by science historian Jake Burke, the book links ideas, innovations, and inventors to build stories about trends and interrelationships. The Information Age's innovations from vacuum tubes to transistors, from computers to networking, and simple programming to intelligent software are presented and along with forecasts for their continued development. The book follows the connections of information technology and highlights key inventions such as search technology. It follows the connections of microchips in building computers, networks, and small wireless devices. And it connects all of these inventions through the on-going devleopment of ubiquitous computing and the ubiquitous Web.
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