Ebook: The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness

The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating...
This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.

---

The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating...
This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.

---

The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating...
This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
The Dawn of Computing....Pages 9-40
Marvelous Machines....Pages 41-49
Computers Go to War....Pages 51-88
Computers and Big Business....Pages 89-103
Deadheads and Propeller Heads....Pages 105-123
The Computer Gets Personal....Pages 125-159
Weaving the Web....Pages 161-181
Dotcom....Pages 183-200
The Second Coming....Pages 201-234
Web 2.0....Pages 235-258
Digital Underworld....Pages 259-283
Machines of Loving Grace....Pages 285-306
Digital Consciousness....Pages 307-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-353

---

The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating...
This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing, Apple's Wozniak and Jobs, Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Zuckerberg. This story is about people and the changes computers have caused. In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular computing could even make us immortal. The computer has been a radical invention. In less than a single human life computers are transforming economies and societies like no human invention before.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
The Dawn of Computing....Pages 9-40
Marvelous Machines....Pages 41-49
Computers Go to War....Pages 51-88
Computers and Big Business....Pages 89-103
Deadheads and Propeller Heads....Pages 105-123
The Computer Gets Personal....Pages 125-159
Weaving the Web....Pages 161-181
Dotcom....Pages 183-200
The Second Coming....Pages 201-234
Web 2.0....Pages 235-258
Digital Underworld....Pages 259-283
Machines of Loving Grace....Pages 285-306
Digital Consciousness....Pages 307-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-353
....