Understanding the Digital Revolution: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet and the Web - Softcover

Meinel, Christoph; Asjoma, Maxim

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ISBN 10: 3662701316 ISBN 13: 9783662701317

Verlag: Springer, 2025

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How does the most important technology of our time - the Internet and WWW – work? The authors explain in simple language and in short the individual technical building blocks and organizational structures, behind the greatest innovation of our time. Only those who know how the technologies that determine our everyday lives can deal with them confidently and in souvereignity. Although digitalization is shaping our daily lives, the technologies behind the Internet and WWW remain obscure to most people. This book provides the key to understanding the huge developments of our time.

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Christoph Meinel is the Founding President of the German University of Digital Sciences and previously has been Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute. He heads the Internet Technologies and Systems department and is author of numerous scientific publications, developer of large digital systems, such as openHPI.de and HPI Schul-Cloud, and a sought-after consultant for politics and business.

Maxim Asjoma is Head of Public Partnerships at Hasso Plattner Institute and holds a doctorate in philosophy with a specialization in economics and digitalization. The focus of his work interest is how digital technologies are transforming societies.

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How does the most important technology of our time - the Internet and WWW – work? The authors explain in simple language and in short the individual technical building blocks and organizational structures, behind the greatest innovation of our time. Only those who know how the technologies that determine our everyday lives can deal with them confidently and in souvereignity. Although digitalization is shaping our daily lives, the technologies behind the Internet and WWW remain obscure to most people. This book provides the key to understanding the huge developments of our time.

About The Authors

Christoph Meinel is the Founding President of the German University of Digital Sciences and previously has been Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute. He heads the Internet Technologies and Systems department and is author of numerous scientific publications, developer of large digital systems, such as openHPI.de and HPI Schul-Cloud, and a sought-after consultant for politics and business.

Maxim Asjoma is Head of Public Partnerships at Hasso Plattner Institute and holds a doctorate in philosophy with a specialization in economics and digitalization. The focus of his work interest is how digital technologies are transforming societies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3662701316
• ISBN 13: 9783662701317
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 227
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