Ada
Ada

Author: Dorothy Stein

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9780262691161

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Uses excerpts from letters, memoirs, and documents to recreate the life of Ada Byron, daughter of the English poet, and discusses her contributions to mathematics and her friendships with the leading mathematicians of the period

Media,Technology and Society
Media,Technology and Society

Author: Brian Winston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1134766335

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Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.