README A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines【電子書籍】[ W. Patrick Mccray ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The essential role that the oldest literary technologyーbooksーplayed in making computers popular and pervasive.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞README＜/em＞, historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines seriously. A powerful catalyst for this transformation was, ironically, one of the oldest information technologies we have: books. The author uses a carefully chosen selection of books, some iconic and others obscure, to describe this technological revolution as it unfolded in the half century after 1945. The book begins with a fundamental question: How does a new technology become well-known and widespread? McCray answers this by using books as a window into significant moments in the history of computing, books, publishing, and American culture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞README＜/em＞ offers a literary history of computers and, more broadly, information technologies between World．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る