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Synopsis
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.
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From the Author
I passionately believe that the computer is like no other invention in human history. As Alan Turing, its inventor, realized in the 1930s, the computer is a Universal Machine - capable of doing any task for which it is programed. I thought I knew the history of computing when I started writing this book, but I learnt so much in the process and got to know some really fascinating people along the way. I therefore invite you to take the plunge and learn more about the history of computing and the people that made it possible. Once the history is out of the way we've got to consider the future, since computers will have an even greater role to play there. Although I work in AI I guess I'm too focused on my team's immediate goals to often look at the big picture, which writing this book made me do. In the last two chapters you'll learn how you're going to become even more dependent on computers and how, one day, computers and humans may become one and the same.
From the Back Cover
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.
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- PublisherCopernicus
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 3642281036
- ISBN 13 9783642281037
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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