Information Ages : Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

Hobart, Michael E.; Schiffman, Zachary Sayre

ISBN 10: 0801864127 / ISBN 13: 9780801864124

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Information Ages : Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801864127
• ISBN 13: 9780801864124
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates.

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

The late twentieth century is trumpeted as the Information Age by pundits and politicians alike, and on the face of it, the claim requires no justification. But in Information Ages, Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman challenge this widespread assumption. In a sweeping and captivating history of information technology from the ancient Sumerians to the world of Alan Turing and John von Neumann, the authors show how revolutions in the technology of information storage—from the invention of writing approximately 5,000 years ago to the mathematical models for describing physical reality in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the introduction of computers—profoundly transformed ways of thinking.

About the Author

Zachary Sayre Schiffman is the Bernard Brommel Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance, the coauthor of Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, and the editor of Humanism and the Renaissance.