Information ages
Subtitle: literacy, numeracy, and the computer revolution
By: Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman.
Contributors: Schiffman, Zachary Sayre.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Computers and civilization.; Information technology.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-294) and index.