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.
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