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1 online resource (xii, 498 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"For Dan Bricklin, technology cannot exist independently of the lives and needs of those who use it. For more than a decade he has shared his thoughts on this essential interdependence in blogs, podcasts, and essays. This volume compiles those observations, putting together case histories and new reflections for a fascinating study of how people and technology affect one another. Whether you're a software developer or a student of human nature, you'll find yourself drawn into this most intriguing discourse--because you are its subject"--Resource description page |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Case Studies and Details -- 2. What Will People Pay For? -- 3. The Recording Industry and Copying -- 4. Leveraging the Crowd -- 5. Cooperation -- 6. Blogging and Podcasting: Observations through Their Development -- 7. Tools: My Philosophy about What We should Be Developing -- 8. Hands On: Tablet and Gestural Computing -- 9. The Long Term -- 10. The PC: Historical Information about an Important Tool -- 11. The Wiki: An Interview with Its Inventor -- 12. VisiCalc. |
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English. |
| Subject |
Computers and civilization.
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Information technology.
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System design.
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Technological innovations.
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Electronic data processing.
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Ordinateurs et civilisation. |
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Technologie de l'information. |
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Conception de systèmes. |
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Innovations. |
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information technology. |
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Electronic data processing |
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Computers and civilization |
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Information technology |
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System design |
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Technological innovations |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bricklin, Dan, 1951- Bricklin on technology. Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., ©2009 9780470402375 0470402377 (DLC) 2009004137 (OCoLC)268790926 |
| ISBN |
9780470500583 (electronic bk.) |
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0470500581 (electronic bk.) |
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0470402377 |
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9780470402375 |
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1282122045 |
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9781282122048 |
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9786612122040 |
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6612122048 |
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(paper/website) |
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