A Brief History Of The Future. Origins And Destiny Of The Internet

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: W&N
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 320 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools succeeded in creating such a Leviathan. John Naughtons book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative and beautifully written account of where the net actually came from, who invented it and why, and where it might be taking us. Most of us have no idea of how the Internet works or who created it. Even fewer have any idea of what it means for society and the future. A Brief History of the Future is an impassioned attempt to rescue the Internet from the condescension of posterity, to celebrate the engineers and scientists who created it and to explain the values and ideas that drove them. Its heroes are the people who laid the foundations of the post-modern world - from visionaries like Robert Taylor, Norbert Wiener and Ted Nelson to the engineers - Paul Baran, Donald Davies, Larry Roberts, Bob Kahn and Tim Berners-Lee - who implemented their dreams in hardware and software. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. In this book, he write

ISBN: 9780297643302