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The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and Its Consequences
Robin Boast
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Description for The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and Its Consequences
Hardback. The book navigates the history of digitality, from the earliest use of digital encoding in a French telegraph invented in 1874, to the first electronic computers. Num Pages: 23 black and white. BIC Classification: UD; UYZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 398.
We live in a digital age, within a digital economy, continuously engaged with digital media. Digital encoding lies at the heart of our contemporary mobile-obsessed, information-heavy, media-saturated world, but it is usually regarded - if it is thought of at all - as something inaccessible, virtual or ephemeral, hidden deep within the workings of our computers, tablets and smartphones. It is surprising that, despite the profusion of books on the history of computers and computing, little has been written about what makes them possible. So what exactly is 'the digital'? Where did it come from? What do we actually know ... Read more
We live in a digital age, within a digital economy, continuously engaged with digital media. Digital encoding lies at the heart of our contemporary mobile-obsessed, information-heavy, media-saturated world, but it is usually regarded - if it is thought of at all - as something inaccessible, virtual or ephemeral, hidden deep within the workings of our computers, tablets and smartphones. It is surprising that, despite the profusion of books on the history of computers and computing, little has been written about what makes them possible. So what exactly is 'the digital'? Where did it come from? What do we actually know ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237398
SKU
V9781780237398
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99-10
About Robin Boast
Robin Boast is Professor of Cultural Information Science at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published widely in the field of information and the culture of the digital.
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