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OverviewThe late 20th century is trumpeted as the Information Age by pundits and politicians, but in this text, the authors challenge this widespread assumption. In a sweeping 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 5000 years ago to the mathematical models for describing physical reality in the 17th and 18th centuries to the introduction of computers - profoundly transformed ways of thinking. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael E. Hobart (Bryant College) , Zachary S. Schiffman (Chair, Northeastern Illinois University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780801864124ISBN 10: 0801864127 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 21 July 2000 Recommended Age: From 18 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 IndexReviews<p>Grand intellectual history... What Hobart and Schiffman have achieved through this cheery analysis is one of the more decisive refutations of the various 'End of History' arguments that have been floated over the past fifteen years. Information 'ages, ' they pun, but history lives forever.--Matthew DeBord Salon Grand intellectual history... What Hobart and Schiffman have achieved through this cheery analysis is one of the more decisive refutations of the various 'End of History' arguments that have been floated over the past fifteen years. Information 'ages,' they pun, but history lives forever. -- Matthew DeBord Salon Far reaching and eloquent... Hobart and Schiffman follow the dreams, trials, and successes of such innovators as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Galileo, Turing, and von Neumann as they took advantage of three distinct ages of information. Publishers Weekly This is a most interesting book... the sort of book that will be read again and again. Choice <p> Grand intellectual history... What Hobart and Schiffman have achieved through this cheery analysis is one of the more decisive refutations of the various 'End of History' arguments that have been floated over the past fifteen years. Information 'ages, ' they pun, but history lives forever. -- Matthew DeBord, Salon Grand intellectual history... What Hobart and Schiffman have achieved through this cheery analysis is one of the more decisive refutations of the various 'End of History' arguments that have been floated over the past fifteen years. Information 'ages,' they pun, but history lives forever. -- Matthew DeBord * Salon * Far reaching and eloquent... Hobart and Schiffman follow the dreams, trials, and successes of such innovators as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Galileo, Turing, and von Neumann as they took advantage of three distinct ages of information. * Publishers Weekly * This is a most interesting book... the sort of book that will be read again and again. * Choice * Author InformationMichael 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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