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100 1 $aBoast, Robin,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe machine in the ghost :$bdigitality and its consequences /$cRobin Boast.
264 1 $aLondon :$bReaktion Books Ltd,$c2017.
264 4 $c℗♭2017.
300 $a208 pages :$bblack and white illustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Digital codes, ticker tape, punched cards and teleprinting: on the origin of digitality -- Date encoding and storage before the computer -- Revisiting computation: computation doesn't need to be digital -- Back to content: from computation to media -- Media clones, multiple renderings: the consequences of the digital.
520 $aThis book tackles this fundamental question by exploring the origins of the digital and showing how digital technology works. It goes back to 1874, when a French telegraph engineer, Jean-Maurice-E mile Baudot, invented the first means of digital communication, the Baudot code. From this simple 5-bit code, it takes us to the first electronic computers, to the earliest uses of graphics and information systems in the 1950s, our interactions with computers through punch cards and programming languages, and the rise of digital media in the 1970s. Via various and sometimes unanticipated historical routes, this book reveals the foundations of digitality and how it has flourished in today's explosion of technologies and the forms of communication and media they enable, making real the often intangible force that guides so much of our lives.
650 0 $aInformation technology$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aHuman-computer interaction.
650 0 $aComputers$xHistory.
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