Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

Hobart PhD, Professor Michael E.; Schiffman PhD, Professor Zachary S.

ISBN 10: 080185881X / ISBN 13: 9780801858819

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1998

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inscribed by author on half-title page. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have light wear. former owner's embossed stamp on title page. dust jacket has very light wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080185881X
• ISBN 13: 9780801858819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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

Michael E. Hobart is a professor of history at Bryant College. Zachary S. Schiffman is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University.