Electronic Dreams
Bloomsbury Sigma (Verlag)
978-1-4729-1834-5 (ISBN)
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It is a tale of unexpected consequences, when the machines that parents bought to help their kids with homework ended up giving birth to the video games industry, and of unrealised ambitions, like the ahead-of-its-time Prestel network that first put the British home online but failed to change the world. Ultimately, it's the story of the people who made the boom happen, the inventors and entrepreneurs like Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar seeking new markets, bedroom programmers and computer hackers, and the millions of everyday folk who bought in to the electronic dream and let the computer into their lives.
Tom Lean is a historian of science currently based at the British Library, where he works on Oral History of British Science, a major project concerned with collecting and archiving life-story interviews with 100 figures from the recent history of science and technology. His fascination with computer technology is long-standing, culminating in his doctorate at the University of Manchester on popular computing in 1980s Britain. @reggitsti
Introduction 1: Electronic Brains 2: Hobbyists Create Microcomputers 3: Computers for the Man in the Street 4: Computer Literacy 5: The Boom 6: Two Information Revolutions That Weren't 7: The Maturing of the Computer Game 8: The Unmaking of the Micro Epilogue: Back to the Future? Further Reading Prices and Other Numbers Acknowledgements Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.1.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8pp colour section |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4729-1834-7 / 1472918347 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4729-1834-5 / 9781472918345 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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