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100 1 _aWatson, Ian.
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Universal Machine
_h[electronic resource] :
_bFrom the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness /
_cby Ian Watson.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2012.
300 _aXIV, 353 p. 110 illus., 1 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aWhat is a Universal Tool? -- Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine -- Office Automation -- Computers go to War -- Computers go to Work -- Deadheads & Propeller Heads -- The Computer gets Personal -- The Computer Revolution -- Weaving the Web -- Apple is Reborn -- Over the Horizon -- Resources -- Competitors -- About the Author -- Published books.
520 _aThe computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating...  This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.
650 0 _aComputer science.
650 0 _aMathematics.
650 1 4 _aComputer Science.
650 2 4 _aComputer Science, general.
650 2 4 _aPopular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783642281013
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28102-0
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