Information Ages

Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6412-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hobart, Michael E

Schiffman, Zachary S

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV & Informatik: Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Information Past and Present
Part I: The Classical Age of Literacy
Chapter 1. Orality and the Problem of Memory
Chapter 2. Early Literacy and List Making
Chapter 3. Alphabetic Literacy and the Science of Classification
Part II: The Modern Age of Numeracy
Chapter 4. Printing and the Rupture of Classification
Chapter 5. Numeracy, Analysis, and the Reintegration of Knowledge
Chapter 6. The Analytical World Map
Part III: The Contemporary Age of Computers
Chapter 7. Analysis Uprooted
Chapter 8. The Realm of Pure Technique
Chapter 9. Information Play
Conclusion: The Two Cultures and the Arrow of Time
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schiffman, Zachary S
Zachary Sayre Schiffman is the Bernard Brommel Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance, the coauthor of Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution, and the editor of Humanism and the Renaissance.

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.