Front matter
BC
BEFORE COMPUTERS
On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data
Contents
Contents vii Acknowledgements ix Prologue 1 1 Inthe beginning... 3 2 Sending messages: the post 17 3 Sending messages: electricity 27 4 Spreading the word 35 5 More about the alphabet 49 6 Organising information 65 7 Picture and sound 75 8 On physics and physiology 89 9 On perspective—and music 97 10 Calculation 115 11 Data processing 123 12 Ciphers 131 Epilogue 143 Bibliography 145 List of illustrations 147 Index of topics 149
Index of names 155
Acknowledgements
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