Too soon to tell : essays for the end of the computer revolution /
Grier, David Alan, 1955 February 14-
Too soon to tell : essays for the end of the computer revolution / David Alan Grier. - Hoboken, N.J. : Los Alamitos, CA : Wiley ; IEEE Computer Society, �2009. - 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) - Perspectives . - Perspectives. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-233) and index.
pt. 1: The Computer Era (1946-1973) -- pt. 2: The Age of Information (1974-1987) -- pt. 3: The Days of Cyberspace: (1986-2007).
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Based on author David A. Grier's column "In Our Time," which runs monthly in Computer magazine, Too Soon To Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that are both contemporary and timeless, these chronological essays examine the revolutionary nature of the computer, the relation between machines and human institutions, and the connections between fathers and sons to provide general readers with a picture of a specific technology that attempted to rebuild human institutions in its own image.
Electronic reproduction.
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2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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9780470422403 0470422408 9780470422397 0470422394 1282137085 9781282137080
10.1002/9780470422403 doi
Computers--History.
Computers in literature.
Literature and technology.
Ordinateurs--Histoire.
Ordinateurs dans la litt�erature.
Litt�erature et technologie.
COMPUTERS--History.
Computers
Computers in literature
Literature and technology
Computer
History
QA76.24 / .G75 2009eb
004/.09
Too soon to tell : essays for the end of the computer revolution / David Alan Grier. - Hoboken, N.J. : Los Alamitos, CA : Wiley ; IEEE Computer Society, �2009. - 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) - Perspectives . - Perspectives. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-233) and index.
pt. 1: The Computer Era (1946-1973) -- pt. 2: The Age of Information (1974-1987) -- pt. 3: The Days of Cyberspace: (1986-2007).
Use copy
Based on author David A. Grier's column "In Our Time," which runs monthly in Computer magazine, Too Soon To Tell presents a collection of essays skillfully written about the computer age, an era that began February 1946. Examining ideas that are both contemporary and timeless, these chronological essays examine the revolutionary nature of the computer, the relation between machines and human institutions, and the connections between fathers and sons to provide general readers with a picture of a specific technology that attempted to rebuild human institutions in its own image.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780470422403 0470422408 9780470422397 0470422394 1282137085 9781282137080
10.1002/9780470422403 doi
Computers--History.
Computers in literature.
Literature and technology.
Ordinateurs--Histoire.
Ordinateurs dans la litt�erature.
Litt�erature et technologie.
COMPUTERS--History.
Computers
Computers in literature
Literature and technology
Computer
History
QA76.24 / .G75 2009eb
004/.09