The Internet for Radiologists.

Caramella

ISBN 10: 3540631518 / ISBN 13: 9783540631514

Published by Springer Verlag, 1998

About this Item

Gebraucht - Gut Zustand: Gut, Mängelexemplar, IX, 195 pp. 191 figs. About this book: This book provides information on all aspects of the Internet of interest to radiologists. It also provides non-experts with all the information necessary to profit from the Internet and to explore the different possibilities offered by the www Its use should be recommended to all radiologists who use the Internet. Wriotten for radiologists.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Internet for Radiologists.
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540631518
• ISBN 13: 9783540631514
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Gut

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Synopsis

Davide Caramella . Steffen Achenbach The world around us is changing at an unparalleled pace. It is difficult to un­ derstand and describe the meaning of this process as no other revolution has involved so many people in such a short time. In particular, the Internet is about to influence all aspects of our lives. In the late 1700s, the "industrial revolution" forced societies that pre­ viously lived on agricultural production to rethink the way they worked. The rapid speed of change also involved non-technical fields: new cities flour­ ished, political systems were changed, the importance of the family was chal­ lenged, wars of a new size shook the world and even landscapes were altered. After centuries of relatively stable economical and sociological conditions, people had to adjust to a new world in no more than a few decades. The "information revolution" is not willing to give us as much time. This is demonstrated by the short history of the World Wide Web (WWW) which started in 1990 and is growing so quickly that the users can only be esti­ mated approximately (the last estimate that could be found at http:// etrg. findsvp. com put the number of WWW users in excess of 50 Million in July 1997). Also in the field of radiology, a spectacular growth took place in the last few years: in a paper published in the American Journal of Roentgen­ ology (AJR), K. W.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian