Digital Planet: Tomorrow's Technology and You (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Pearson Education Limited, Harlow, 2013
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Paperback. For introductory courses in computer concepts often including instruction in Microsoft Office. Explores the promises and challenges of information technology, along with its effect on businesses, people, society, and the future. Digital Planet: Tomorrows Technology and You explores information technology on three levels: Explanations: Clearly explains what a computer is and what it can (and cant) do; it clearly explains the basics of information technology, from multimedia PCs to the Internet and beyond. Applications: Illustrates how computers and networks areand will beused as practical tools to solve a wide variety of problems. Implications: Puts technology in a human context, illustrating how digital devices and networks affect our lives, our world, and our future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Digital Planet: Tomorrow's Technology and You (Paperback)
- Author
- George Beekman
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited, Harlow
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1292021063
- ISBN 13
- 9781292021065
Completely updated, Tomorrow’s Technology and You, provides you with an understanding of information technology so you can successfully navigate change and advance into the future.
Today we’re standing at the junction of three powerful and rapidly evolving technological forces: computers, communications, and digital entertainment. Computer technology is showing up in everything from automobiles to home appliances to telephones to televisions, and the lines that separate these machines are fading. This digital convergence is rapidly–and radically–altering the world in which we live.
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About the Author
George Beekman is an Honorary Instructor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. For more than two decades he designed and taught courses in computer literacy, interactive multimedia, computer ethics, and computer programming at OSU. His innovative computer literacy course served as the inspiration for Computer Currents, the first edition of the book that evolved into Digital Planet. George Beekman has taught workshops in computer literacy and multimedia for students, educators, and economically disadvantaged families from the Atlantic to Alaska. He has written many books on computers, information technology, and multimedia, as well as more than 100 articles and reviews for Macworld and other popular publications. George also bikes, hikes, and runs on Oregon trails and roads, produces and plays acoustic and electronic music, shoots and edits photos and videos, and cultivates community connections on and off line.
Ben Beekman is a multimedia designer, writer, and technical consultant based in Portland, Oregon. Ben has developed multimedia Web sites for businesses, nonprofits, artists, and musicians. He has done extensive desktop publishing, page layout, and design for periodicals and one-shot publications. He has written blogs for the Web and technology reviews for print media. He has worked behind-the-scenes on several books, and co-authored the last two editions of this one. Ben also composes, mixes, and remixes music and video, tracks the evolving Internet, consumes comedy, plays disc golf, and enjoys the outdoors with friends and his dog Gizmo.
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