The Computer. A History from the 17th Century to Today

From analog to digital, mainframes to mobile phones—with photos, ads, and concept drawings of inventions that ushered in the digital era, this visual survey of the Information Age reveals how the computer and the Internet irreversibly transformed our world. Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German) Hardcover, 9.7 x 14.6 in., 9.04 lb, 472 pages In the Beginning Was the Computer A history from early calculating machines to today The story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today’s world. From the early beginnings of computing to the bulky mainframe to the personal computer era, we now live in an almost entirely digital age.The Computer explores steps from the first ideas of a calculating machine in the 19th century and early experiments with autonomous driving in the 1920s to oversized office computers in the 1950s to laptops and wearables of today. Jens Müller delivers a visual understanding of the emergence of