Corey Ford's Guide To Thimking; A Handbook for the Home Cybernetician
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1961
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Condition: Used - Very good
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The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9 inches. 95, [1] pages. Illustrations. DJ has wear, tears, scuffs, soiling and chips. The Dust Jacket states A Humorous Handbook for the Machine Age With Over 40 Cartoons. Perhaps the first humorous book on computers and computing. Ford's preface is presciently titled "A Computer in Every Home." The book's title makes reference to IBM's "Think" signs that were ubiquitous in workplaces during the 60s. One of the earliest collection of humor regarding the computer and its impact on society. Corey Ford (April 29, 1902 - July 27, 1969) was an American humorist, writer, and screenwriter. He was friendly with members of the Algonquin Round Table and occasionally lunched there. He was a freelance writer and humorist. Ford published 30 books and more than 500 magazine articles, many of them marked with a gregarious sense of humor, a love of dogs, and "underdogs." He told many stories of the literary scene in the twenties, of headhunters in Dutch Borneo, and of U.S. airmen in combat during World War II. Ford wrote a monthly column, "The Lower Forty Hunting, Shooting and Inside Straight Club", for Field & Stream for almost 20 years in the 1950s and 1960s. Ford created the name Eustace Tilley for the dandyish, top-hatted symbol of The New Yorker magazine. Ford's series of "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs. John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs. Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs. Martha Graham, and Gertrude Stein vs. Gracie Allen. Corey Food presents a hilarious preview of life in the Machine Age. According to Mr. Ford, it will be an age in which the computer solves those perplexing questions that have harassed man since time began, such as: Where does my wife keep the sugar? Are the fish biting" Where are the car Keys" and. Do we send a Christmas card to the Tweepers? With these man-made brains, Corey Ford predicts , the golfer will be able to shoot a better game by feeding the computer wind directions, length of fairway grass, and his current handicap, and learning which club to use. The businessman will be able to capture handily the office pool on the World Series, and decipher the perplexing doodles on his secretary's blotter. No family, he continues, will be complete without two computers: His and Hers. It is to prepare man for this baffling new existence that Corey Ford has written his Guide to Thimking. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Corey Ford's Guide To Thimking; A Handbook for the Home Cybernetician
- Author
- Ford, Corey
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York
- Publication year
- 1961
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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