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by Michael E. Hobart; Zachary S. Schiffman

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A grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates.

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

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 5,000 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.

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"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus's Achilles and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaeans."

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  • Title Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
  • Author Michael E. Hobart; Zachary S. Schiffman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-05-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780801864124 / 0801864127
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.99 x 0.8 in (22.73 x 15.21 x 2.03 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Science
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

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Michael E. Hobart is a professor of history at Bryant College. Zachary S. Schiffman is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University.

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