High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian - Softcover

Stoll, Clifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385489765 ISBN 13: 9780385489768

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Clifford Stoll

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Críticas

"An often funny and acerbic look at the new computer priesthood." --The Christian Science Monitor

"Stoll's long experience with technology gives him authority. . . . His claims are based on facts, logic and common sense." --The Seattle Times

"Wonderful. . . . Stoll has Internetted there, computed that and seen through the hype about computers and education." --Chicago Sun-Times

"When Stoll says something, gearheads and non-gearheads alike usually listen. Not only is he an entertaining writer, but he is completely sensible in his approach about the role computers should play in our lives." --The San Diego Union-Tribune

"Wonderful...SHould be in the hands of every school administrator ready to sign a check for more computers."-Chicago Sun-Times

Reseña del editor

The author of Silicon Snake Oil offers a provocative and controversial critique of the educational applications and benefits of computers and provides a commonsense look at how technology can be best utilized and controlled in the modern world. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385489765
• ISBN 13: 9780385489768
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240