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Information Ages Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

Paperback • 2000 • English

Information Ages Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

By Michael E. Hobart, Zachary S. Schiffman

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About the book

A grand intellectual history from clay tablets to Bill Gates.Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleThe 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 Turi...Show more

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9780801864124

Publisher

JHU Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Information Ages Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution

Format

Paperback

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