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The New Renaissance:

Computers and the Next Level of Civilization
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Oxford University Press, Sep 17, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 200 pages
The electronic computer, argues Douglas Robertson, is the most important invention in the history of technology, if not all history It has already set off an information explosion that has changed many facets of civilization beyond recognition. These changes have ushered in nothing less than the dawn of a new level of civilization. In The New Renaissance, Robertson offers an important historical perspective on the computer revolution, by comparing it to three earlier landmarks of human development--language, writing, and printing. We see how these three inventions changed how we capture, store, and distribute information, and how each thereby triggered an information explosion that transformed society, ushering in a new civilization utterly unlike anything before. But history has never seen a revolution on the scale of the one being sparked by computers today. What can we expect from the most important technological breakthrough in human history? Robertson lays out possible scenarios regarding transformations in science and mathematics, education, language, the arts, and everyday life. School children, for instance, will forsake pencil and paper for keyboard and calculator, much as their forebears forsook clay tablets and abaci for pencil and paper. In films, the computer simulations of Jurassic Park could be eclipsed by "synthespians," artificial actors indistinguishable from living ones. Whether one is a computer enthusiast, a popular science buff, or simply someone fascinated by the future, The New Renaissance provides a breathtaking peek at the magnitude of changes we can expect as the full power of computers is unleashed.

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About the author (1998)


Douglas S. Robertson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and a member of the Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity, all at the University of Colorado. He lives in Longmont.

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TitleThe New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization
AuthorDouglas S. Robertson
Editionillustrated
PublisherOxford University Press, 1998
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized19 Nov 2007
Length200 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Computers / Information Technology
Computers / Social Aspects / General
Science / Applied Sciences
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