Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
Grand intellectual history... What Hobart and Schiffman have achieved through this cheery analysis is one of the more decisive refutations of the various 'End of History' arguments that have been floated over the past fifteen years. Information 'ages,' they pun, but history lives forever.(Matthew DeBordSalon)Far reaching and eloquent... Hobart and Schiffman follow the dreams, trials, and successes of such innovators as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Galileo, Turing, and von Neumann as they took advantage of three distinct ages of information.(Publishers Weekly)Extraordinarily timely in every sense of the word. There is no work available to my knowledge that summarizes so succinctly the relations between knowledge and its media over the entire span of human history.(D. R. Woolf, Dalhousie University)This is a most interesting book... the sort of book that will be read again and again.(Choice)Creates an important, wide-ranging perspective from which to view our current computer age. It is at once accurate, clear, and provocative.(Joan L. Richards, Brown University)