- Description
Description
Treading the line between philosophy and technical history, Robertson draws on his extensive technical knowledge to produce a text which is both thought-provoking and accessible to a wide range of readers. The book is wide in scope, exploring the development of technologies in such diverse areas as cryptography, visual art and music, and the postal system. Through all this, it does not simply aim to tell the story of computer developments but to show that those developments rely on a long history of humans creating technologies for increasingly sophisticated methods of manipulating information.
Through a clear structure and engaging style, it brings together a wealth of informative and conceptual explorations into the history of human technologies, and avoids assumptions about any prior knowledge on the part of the reader. As such, it has the potential to be of interest to the expert and the general reader alike.
Author: Stephen Robertson
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 09/25/2020
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781800640306
ISBN10: 1800640307
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Computer Engineering
- Computers | Information Technology
- Computers | Information Theory
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