On 2009-09-28 Karl J. Hanson, wrote: Our memories are short. We take for granted the Internet, emails and blogs - but these things are still quite new. So much of what we read today about computer technology is slanted in the form of hype, written by journalists and company advertisers. I really enjoyed this book, because it is history book, giving a proper perspective of the development of computers and the industry as a whole.
What is particularly interesting is how the driving force behind computer innovations has changed. Originally, computers were invented as a means to solve ballistics equations. Then IBM took control of the industry changing the driving force into business applications. Today, a significant portion of computer usage is for communication and entertainment purposes.
I highly recommend this book, because it gives the reader a proper perspective of where all this stuff came from. Today we look back with 20/20 vision, as though the inventors of computers had a clear plan - but that wasn´t the case. Computers evolved, based on many tried and failed attempts.
. And summed up by saying Seeing the Forest Thru the Trees. Currently Computer: A History Of The Information Machine, Second Edition (The Sloan Technology Series) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Westview Press claimed Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers. This second edition now extends beyond the development of Microsoft Windows and the Internet, to include open source operating systems like Linux, and the rise again and fall and potential rise of the dot.com industries.
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