Length8h 39m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "While you are reading this sentence, an electronic computer is performing 3 million mathematical operations! Before you read this page, another computer could translate it and several others into a foreign language. Electronic "brains" are taking over chores that include the calculation of everything from automobile parking fees to zero hour for space missile launchings. Despite bitter winter weather, a recent conference on computers drew some 4,000 delegates to Washington, D.C.; indicating the importance and scope of the new industry. The 1962 domestic market for computers and associated equipment is estimated at just under $3 billion, with more than 150,000 people employed in manufacture, operation, and maintenance of the machines. In the short time since the first electronic computer made its appearance, these thinking machines have made such fantastic strides in so many different directions that most of us are unaware how much our lives are already being affected by them. Banking, for example, employs complex machines that process checks and handle accounts so much faster than human bookkeepers 2that they do more than an hour's work in less than thirty seconds."
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 18, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11: Computers—The Machines We Think With
29Bionics
22: The Computer’s Past
30The Computer as a Thinker
3The Mechanics of Reason
317: Uncle Sam’s Computers
4The Computer in Literature
32The Computer in Washington
5Early Mechanical Devices
33Electronic Legal Eagle
Show all chaptersShow less
6Symbolic Logic
34Computers in Khaki
7The Census Taker
35In the Air
8The Modern Computer
36On the Sea
93: How Computers Work
37Computers in Space
10The Computer’s Parts
38Summary
11Input
398: The Computer in Business and Industry
12Control
40The Shopper’s Friend
13Arithmetic or Logic
41Electronic Ticker Tape
14Memory
42Versatile Executive
15Output
43Communication
16Another Kind of Computer
44Industry
174: Computer Cousins—Analog and Digital
45The Designing Computer
18The Analog Measuring Stick
46Digital Doctor
19The Digital Counter
47Music
20Hybrid Computers
48The Machine at Play
21Summary
49Business Outlook
225: The Binary Boolean Bit
509: The Computer and Automation: The Robots
23The Binary System
5110: The Academic Computer
24The Logical Algebra
52Teaching Machines
256: The Electronic Brain
53Language
26Thinking Defined
54Information Retrieval
27The Human Brain
55Summary
28The Computer’s Brain
5611: The Road Ahead
The Two Swords of ChristRaymond Ibrahim15h 55m$30
Black AF HistoryMichael Harriot15h 43m5 (1)$33 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m$46 · $0.00
The Redeemer’s ReturnArthur W. Pink13h 18m$20
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m$40 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m$20 · $0.00
Frederick Douglass: All 3 Memoirs in One VolumeFrederick Douglass44h 9m$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 10m$2 · $0.00
I've Been to the MountaintopMartin Luther King48m5 (1)$11 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m$29 · $0.00
Saving My EnemyBob Welch9h 11m$20
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m$33 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m$15
You may also like
Machines at WorkMary Elting37m$2 · $0.00
ITIL Foundation Essentials ITIL 4 Edition - The ultimate revision guide, second editionClaire Agutter1h 12m$27 · $0.00
DriverlessHod Lipson, Melba Kurman9h 57m$20
Pete the Cat: Robo-PeteJames Dean5m$4 · $0.00
Chatgpt Complete GuideJoaquin Gener1h 23m$6 · $0.00
The Future Ready OrganizationGyan Nagpal7h 44m$26 · $0.00
AutonomyLawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan11h 21m$29 · $0.00
Giant Brains, or, Machines That ThinkEdmund Callis Berkeley9h 21m$2.30
Robot RightsDavid J. Gunkel10h 58m$23 · $0.00
Machines of Loving GraceJohn Markoff11h 53m$29 · $0.00
Master AiHenrique Xavier Oliveira2h 5m$6 · $0.00
Artificial IntelligenceAxel Mammitzsch53m$10 · $0.00
AI and Genius MachinesScientific American7h 58m$20 · $0.00
AngelJason Calacanis8h 20m$26 · $0.00
The Highway Code UKDepartment for Transport3h 33m$11 · $0.00
Me, My Customer, and AIHenrik Werdelin, Nicholas Thorne3h 41m$20
The Artificial AuthorSimone Aliprandi7h 42m$15 · $0.00
Tech of TomorrowJulie Murray18m$3
Artificial IntelligenceJ.C.Lesko2h 43m$15 · $0.00
Where's My Jetpack?Daniel H. Wilson3h 41m$12 · $0.00