Pebbles to computers : the thread

Resource Information

The work Pebbles to computers : the thread represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Pebbles to computers : the thread

Title remainder

the thread

Statement of responsibility

Hans Blohm, Stafford Beer, David Suzuki

Creator

• Blohm, Hans

Contributor

• Beer, Stafford
• Suzuki, David T., 1936-

Subject

• Computers -- History
• History
• Informatietechnologie
• Natuurwetenschappen
• Numbers -- History
• Numeration
• Numeration -- History
• Computers

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

This book is about the connexions that link and pattern the story of humanity's attempt to understand its experience. If we could not organise our perceptions so as to interpret them, then our cosmos would seem to be random and meaningless. The need to organise and analyse is one of the characteristics that make us human. Our responses to that need make up the history of thought.The story of computation, from the earliest use of pebbles to the most sophisticated modern circuits, is one of the central themes in the story of human endeavour, but this book is more than a history. Here the insights of the artist, the philosopher and the scientist are brought together in a unique conjuction. Like a prismatic lens they reveal colours and planes that are otherwise hidden from sight. -- from dust jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

500

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

• QA76.17
• Q172

LC item number

• .B57 1986
• .B58 1986

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography