Networking: communicating witn bodies and machines in the Nineteenth-century
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
España peninsular
This new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communication technology. Laura Otis demonstrates that t...
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- ISBN13 9780472112135
- ISBN10 0472112139
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 268
- Año de Edición 2002
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Tela
Networking: communicating witn bodies and machines in the Nineteenth-century
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
This new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communication technology. Laura Otis demonstrates that t...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
This new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communication technology. Laura Otis demonstrates that those roots are centuries old, not a modern conception. She shows how nineteenth-century neurobiologists, engineers, and fiction writers influenced each other's ideas about communication. Placing our own comparisons of nerve and computer networks in perspective, Otis explores their emergence in early analogies linking nerves and telegraphs.