When Information Came of Age

Autor*innen

• Daniel R. Headrick

Parameter

• 256 Seiten
• 9 Lesestunden

• Geschichte
• Geschichte der Wissenschaft
• Historisches Thema
• Sachliteratur
• Wissenschaft

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"One of the myths of the computer era is that it is our age that invented Information Technology. In a book that is as timely as it is scholarly, Dan Headrick shows how the age of enlightenment discovered 'information' as a systematic way of organizing the things we know. Information technologies preceded industrialization and clearly played a major role in the emergence of modern production techniques and the democratic institutions of free market. Headrick isone of the most imaginative and original minds working on historical questions today."--Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Einband: Paperback