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  • The Friendly Orange Glow

    The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture

    de Brian Dear ...
    At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. Not only did PLATO engineers ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    The Friendly Orange Glow

    The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

    de Brian Dear ...
    Narrado por George Newbern ...

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    At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. Not only did PLATO engineers ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Information

    A History, a Theory, a Flood

    de James Gleick ...
    From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory.Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Turing's Cathedral

    The Origins of the Digital Universe

    de George Dyson ...
    “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Soul of A New Machine

    de Tracy Kidder ...
    Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Computing

    A Concise History

    de Paul E. Ceruzzi ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    Discover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, smartphones, and much more.In an accessible style, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broad though detailed history of computing, from the first use of the word “digital” in 1942 to the development of punch cards and the first general purpose ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Wild Ride

    Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination

    de Adam Lashinsky ...
    In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO.Before Travis Kalanick became famous as the public face of Uber, he was a scrappy, rough-edged, loose-lipped entrepreneur. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

    Building the world's first computers

    de Simon Lavington, Chris Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Roger Johnson ...
    Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. By 1955 computers had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Geek Atlas

    128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive

    de John Graham-Cumming ...
    The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Gatekeepers: Sergey Brin Larry Page and Google

    de Daniel Alef ...
    Sergey Brin once described the Internet as the repository of all our knowledge and the company he and Larry Page founded a mere decade ago Google Inc. provides access to the Internet for a majority of the Western world. Google has altered the world we live in with a profound impact on just about everything we do. In addition to the search engine Google has given us many other products including ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Track Changes

    A Literary History of Word Processing

    de Matthew G. Kirschenbaum ...
    The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered the floor of Gutenberg’s print shop or the hot molten lead of the Linotype machine. During the period of the pivotal growth and widespread adoption of word processing as a writing technology, some authors embraced it as a marvel while others decried it as the death of literature. The product of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • When Computers Were Human

    de David Alan Grier ...
    Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD