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Title: A Brief History of the Future
Condition: New
EAN: 9780753810934
ISBN: 9780753810934
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10/05/2000
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 133mm
Item Width: 27mm
Item Weight: 302g
Author: John Naughton
Language: English
ISBN-10: 075381093X
Description:

The only book that tells the whole story of the internet from its origins in the 1940s to the advent of the worldwide web at the dawn of the 21st century

The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. John Naughton's book intersperses wonderful personal stories with an authoritative 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. In a cynical age, John Naughton has not lost his capacity for wonder. He examines the nature of his own enthusiasm for technology and traces its roots in his lonely childhood and in his relationship with his father. A Brief History of the Future is an intensely personal celebration of vision and altruism, ingenuity and determination and above all, of the power of ideas, passionately felt, to change the world.

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