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Title: A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime by John Naughton ISBN: 1-58567-184-3 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I wish high school history had been like this
Comment: Next time you take a transcontinental flight to a technical conference, skip the airline movie and just read this wonderful book cover to cover. I wish history class in high school had been this much fun. Naughton has written the definitive history of the Internet so far. For example, when the Pentagon asked AT&T to build an early prototype of the Internet for them, AT&T pooh-poohed packet switching as a worthless idea concocted by some young whippersnapper (Paul Baran of the Rand Corp.) who knew nothing about proper telephone engineering. The book is full of anecdotes and funny stories. Great reading for old fogies and young fogies alike.
Rating: 5
Summary: The entire history of the Internet's development
Comment: What does the Internet mean for the future? An answer partially depends upon an analysis of the past, and John Naughton's Brief History of the Future is the first book to cover the entire history of the Internet's development, from those who first thought of it in the 1940s to the scientists and engineers who brought it to life. Anecdotes blend with history to provide an intriguing blend of personal and scientific observation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book - reads like a novel!
Comment: Reads like a sci-fi novel while providing a solid understanding of how and why the Internet works. At times the detail is almost overdone but this only adds to the credibility of the author. I started with a Timex Sinclair computer and have lived through the period covered in this book without really understanding just what made the internet work. Now I know!
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Title: Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely ISBN: 0887308554 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 23 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy by Philip Evans, Thomas S. Wurster ISBN: 087584877X Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries by Walt Crawford ISBN: 0838907547 Publisher: Amer Library Assn Editions Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Introductory Concepts in Information Science by Melanie J. Norton ISBN: 1573870870 Publisher: Information Today, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.50 |
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Title: Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century by Michael Gorman ISBN: 0838907857 Publisher: Amer Library Assn Editions Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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