TY - BOOK AU - Grier,David Alan TI - Too soon to tell: essays for the end of the computer revolution T2 - Perspectives SN - 9780470422403 AV - QA76.24 .G75 2009eb U1 - 004/.09 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Hoboken, N.J., Los Alamitos, CA PB - Wiley, IEEE Computer Society KW - Computers KW - History KW - Computers in literature KW - Literature and technology KW - Ordinateurs KW - Histoire KW - Ordinateurs dans la litt�erature KW - Litt�erature et technologie KW - COMPUTERS KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Computer KW - gnd N1 - 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); Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470422403 ER -