The Devouring Fungus

ISBN: 9780393307320

出版年: 1990-11

页数: 238

定价: $ 21.41

内容简介

This humorous history of the computer offers a series of anecdotes of the way people view, use and misuse them, describes the uses and abuses to which they are put in personal and business life and underlines the way in which they have infiltrated all aspects of life. A typical tale from the book is one that recounts how a hacker in America found that his baby daughter had slipped a slice of processed cheese into his floppy disc sleeve - having watched him all too closely. The author, once completely computer illiterate, is a freelance writer, whose articles have appeared in the "New York Times", "Newsday", "Cosmopolitan" and others.