Author | : Stephen Edward Robertson |
File Size | : 54,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Unknown |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 19 May 2024 |
ISBN | : 1800640315 |
Pages | : 156 pages |
B C Before Computers by Stephen Edward Robertson Book PDF Summary
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.