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- catalog abstract "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 5000 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.".
- catalog contributor b10886741.
- catalog contributor b10886742.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-293) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Information present and past -- pt. I. The classical age of literacy. Orality and the problem of memory -- Early literacy and list making -- Alphabetic literacy and the science of classification -- p.t II. The modern age of numeracy. Printing and the rupture of classification -- Numeracy, analysis, and the reintegration of knowledge -- The analytical world map -- pt. III. The contemporary age of computers. Analysis uprooted -- The realm of pure technique -- Information play -- Conclusion: The two cultures and the arrow of time.".
- catalog description "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 5000 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.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 301 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Information ages.".
- catalog identifier "080185881X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Information ages.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Information ages.".
- catalog subject "303.48/34 21".
- catalog subject "Computers and civilization.".
- catalog subject "Information technology.".
- catalog subject "QA76.9.C66 H63 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Information present and past -- pt. I. The classical age of literacy. Orality and the problem of memory -- Early literacy and list making -- Alphabetic literacy and the science of classification -- p.t II. The modern age of numeracy. Printing and the rupture of classification -- Numeracy, analysis, and the reintegration of knowledge -- The analytical world map -- pt. III. The contemporary age of computers. Analysis uprooted -- The realm of pure technique -- Information play -- Conclusion: The two cultures and the arrow of time.".
- catalog title "Information ages : literacy, numeracy, and the computer revolution / Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman.".
- catalog type "text".