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Who gives a gigabyte? : a survival guide for the technologically perplexed
- Title
- Who gives a gigabyte? : a survival guide for the technologically perplexed / Gary Stix and Miriam Lacob.
- Author
- Stix, Gary.
- Publication
- New York : John Wiley, [1999], ©1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Lacob, Miriam.
- Description
- iv, 300 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Which new technologies will change our lives the most in the years ahead? Introducing today's brave new world of gene therapy, quantum computation, designer drugs, and recyclable cars, Who Gives a Gigabyte? surveys the exciting range of technological wonders reshaping our world - as well as those soon to come - and offers simple, engaging explanations of what they are and how they work.
- Scientific American senior editor Gary Stix and journalist Miriam Lacob combine their skills to take readers on a tour of the most important recent developments in genetics, medicine, cybernetics, telecommunications, robotics, micromachines, environmental cleanup, and more.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-294) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Microchips and the Millennium -- 1. Computers 101: From Bits to Gigabytes and Beyond -- 2. Software: Making a Computer Bend to Your Will -- 3. Wiring the World: Telecommunications and Data Networks -- 4. Lasers: The Light Fantastic -- 5. All in the Genes: DNA Becomes an Industry -- 6. Medicine and Molecules: New Approaches to Drug Development -- 7. Spare Parts and High-Tech Flashlights: Repair Kits and Diagnostics for the Human Body -- 8. Material Improvements: Better Living through Advanced Chemistry -- 9. Mother Earth, Wind, and Fire: Energy for a Small Planet -- 10. Clean Machines: Technology and the Environment -- Conclusion: Great Expectations.
- ISBN
- 0471162930 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98035327
- OCLC
- ocm39624756
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries