A Brief History of the Future - Couverture souple

Naughton, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 075381093X ISBN 13 : 9780753810934

Editeur : W&N, 2000

Synopsis

The only book that tells the whole story of the internet from its origins in the 1940s to the advent of the worldwide web at the dawn of the 21st century

The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative account of where the Net actually came from, who invented it and why, and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea of how the Internet works or who created it. Even fewer have any idea of what it means for society and the future. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Naughton has been an academic and a journalist all his working life. He is a Senior Lecturer in Systems at the Open University, and since 1987 has written a weekly column for the Observer which has won him several major awards including three nominations as Critic of the Year. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and the Director of the College's Press Fellowship Programme.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W&N
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 075381093X
• ISBN 13: 9780753810934
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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