9788184050325 - Builders of the Global Village von Ali, Amjad (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Introduction. 1. Johannes Gutenberg. 2. Alexander Bell Grahm. 3. Gulielmo Marconi. 4. John Logie Baird. 5. Charles Babbage. 6. Marshall Mc Luhan. 7. Arthur C. Clark. 8. Alvin Toffler. 9. Bill Gates. 10. Tim Berners Lee. 11. Larry Page. General bibliography and links. Over the last many centuries human beings innovated different methods of transferring information to distant places with ever improvement quality and efficiency. They brought information revolution which transformed the entire world into a global village. It took place in varied periods of history and the most notable of them was set off by invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century. Information revolution has now taken a new form of electronic interdependence an era when electronic media replace the culture producing new social organizations. The electronic technologies of telephone radio television computers and internet and their interpretation by renowned scholars in social context have caused information explosion. Traditional understandings of space and time have been collapsed by the current speed of electronic transmissions. This book provides information on the lives of the ten great thinkers writer scientist and engineers of all times who pioneered information revolution. It encompasses their biographical accounts innovations and individual contribution to the society. 248 pp.