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The Universal Machine : From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness / by Ian Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Ian, author.
- Series:
- Computer Science (Springer-11645)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer science.
- Popular works.
- Computer Science, general.
- Popular Science, general.
- Local Subjects:
- Computer Science, general.
- Popular Science, general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XIV, 353 pages) : 110 illustrations, 1 illustrations in color
- Edition:
- First edition 2012.
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Copernicus, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- What is a Universal Tool?
- Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
- Office Automation
- Computers go to War
- Computers go to Work
- Deadheads and 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.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 978-3-642-28102-0
- 9783642281020
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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