Contents: Calculators and Computers -- The Great Brain -- Grace Hopper -- Evolution of the Computer -- A Vision of the Future -- Early Home Computing -- Laptop -- Networks -- Inventing the World Wide Web -- Undersea Cables -- Internet Traffic -- Silicon Valley -- Bill Gates -- How Apple Grew -- What's Behind a Website -- What do search engines do -- Who Invented Google -- Server Farm -- Our Time Online -- Social Networking -- Mark Zuckerberg -- The Growth of the Web -- Access all Areas -- How the Web is Run -- The Good Side of the Web -- The Bad Side of the Web -- Keeping Us Safe -- Making Money Online -- E-Buying and Selling -- A World Without Wires -- Smartphone -- Text Talk -- Eye in the Sky -- Where Do You Want to Go -- What's a Wiki -- The Age of the Internet -- The Shift to Digital Media -- E-Reader -- Augmented Reality -- From Arcades to Consoles -- Early Games -- Tomohiro Nishikado -- The Story of Nintendo -- The Evolution of Game Controllers -- Kinect -- Playing Together -- How video games are made -- What do you want to play -- Console Wars -- Virtual worlds -- Video Games arrive -- Digital Camera -- Digital photography -- Clive Sinclair -- Wired Cities -- Interacting with new technology -- Supercomputers -- Artificial intelligence -- What makes a robot -- Types of robots -- Cynthia Breazeal -- Mars Rover -- Robot Hospital -- Robot Explorers -- Advance of the robots -- What next. Includes Glossary and Index.
Summary:
How many times a day do you connect to the digital world? You text, tweet, stream songs, watch videos, and play games. But do you know how it all works? Leap inside to discover the technology behind the coolest gadgets and meet the people with the big ideas. Find out what robots are up to, how a video game is made, and how the internet affects your life.
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