The Dream Machine: Story of the Computer - Hardcover

Palfreman, Jon; Swade, Doron

 
9780563362210: The Dream Machine: Story of the Computer
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0563362219 ISBN 13: 9780563362210
Verlag: BBC Books, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Published to tie in with a BBC2 series starting in September 1991, of which Jon Palfreman is the Executive Producer, this book explores the extraordinary rise of a new technology and the remarkable people behind it. It examines the past, present and future of computers - the machines that have dramatically changed the way in which people live, work, learn, make decisions and spend their leisure time. The first computers were massive and expensive machines that did little more than calculate and record census data. Today, on small desktop computers, it is possible to generate complex graphics, diagnose diseases and tap into libraries of information - all at the push of a button. Here, the authors chronicle the remarkable, and sometimes sinister, advances in computer technology. They also relate the human stories behind the machines - the colourful visionaries, brilliant scientists and engineers, industrial pioneers, college drop-outs and corporate malcontents whose entrepreneurial spirit gave the world a machine that holds infinite possibilities.

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Verlag
BBC Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0563362219
ISBN 13 
9780563362210
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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