You can't afford not to understand the information revolution that's sweeping the world-but who's got time for all the acronyms and hype most technology books give you? "The Essential Guide to Computing" demystifies the digital society we live in with an intelligent, thorough, and up-to-date explanation of computer, networking, and Internet technologies.]]> http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/High-Tech-Heretic:-Why-Computers-Don%5C%27t-Belong-in-the-Classroom-by-Clifford-Stoll%2C-ISBN-0385489765/Info/788930 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:55:17 +0000 Stoll%2C Tech http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/High-Tech-Heretic:-Why-Computers-Don%5C%27t-Belong-in-the-Classroom-by-Clifford-Stoll%2C-ISBN-0385489765/Info/788930 As one who loves computers as much as he disdains the inflated promises made on their behalf, Stoll offers a commonsense look at how we can make a technological world better suited for people, instead of making people better suited to using machines.]]> http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Computers%2C-Ethics-%26-Social-Values-by-Deborah-G.-Johnson%2C-ISBN-0131031104/Info/525441 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:02:18 +0000 Reviews G. http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Computers%2C-Ethics-%26-Social-Values-by-Deborah-G.-Johnson%2C-ISBN-0131031104/Info/525441 http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Trouble-with-Computers:-Usefulness%2C-Usability%2C-and-Productivity-by-Thomas-K.-Landauer%2C-ISBN-0262621088/Info/491505 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:23:29 +0000 Music Productivity http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Trouble-with-Computers:-Usefulness%2C-Usability%2C-and-Productivity-by-Thomas-K.-Landauer%2C-ISBN-0262621088/Info/491505 http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/The-Closed-World:-Computers-%26-the-Politics-of-Discourse-in-Cold-War-America-by-Paul-N.-Edwards%2C-ISBN-0262550288/Info/491732 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:25:05 +0000 Automotive Blogging http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/The-Closed-World:-Computers-%26-the-Politics-of-Discourse-in-Cold-War-America-by-Paul-N.-Edwards%2C-ISBN-0262550288/Info/491732 http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Computers-and-Classroom-Culture-by-Janet-Ward-Schofield%2C-ISBN-052147924X/Info/412300 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:54:16 +0000 Weblog Blogging http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Computers-and-Classroom-Culture-by-Janet-Ward-Schofield%2C-ISBN-052147924X/Info/412300 http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Silicon-Snake-Oil:-Second-Thoughts-on-the-Information-Highway-by-Clifford-Stoll%2C-ISBN-0385419945/Info/460654 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:06:13 +0000 Weblog Silicon+Snake+Oil%3A+Second+Thoughts+on+the+Information+Highway+by+Clifford+Stoll%2C+ISBN+0385419945 http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Silicon-Snake-Oil:-Second-Thoughts-on-the-Information-Highway-by-Clifford-Stoll%2C-ISBN-0385419945/Info/460654 A cautionary tale about today's media darling, "Silicon Snake Oil has sparked intense debate across the country about the merits--and foibles--of what's been touted as the entranceway to our future.]]> http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Thin-Clients-Clearly-Explained-by-Joseph-T.-Sinclair%2C-ISBN-012645535X/Info/664140 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:05:04 +0000 Funny Computers http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Thin-Clients-Clearly-Explained-by-Joseph-T.-Sinclair%2C-ISBN-012645535X/Info/664140 http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Artificial-Life:-A-Report-from-the-Frontier-Where-Computers-Meet-Biology-by-Steven-Levy%2C-ISBN-0679743898/Info/380089 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:47:25 +0000 random Life%3A http://www.yourcomputersvalues.com/Artificial-Life:-A-Report-from-the-Frontier-Where-Computers-Meet-Biology-by-Steven-Levy%2C-ISBN-0679743898/Info/380089 What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico.
But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work.]]>