A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Turing Galaxy: on naming the age of the networked digital computer

The most commonly used name for our era is that of the `information society, which is a rather unexpressive and, strictly speaking, tautological term. The informatics & society scholar Wolfgang Coy, following the example of McLuhan`s Gutenberg Galaxy, has introduced the concept of the Turing Gal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: GRASSMUCK, Volker
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Federal da Bahia 2007-12-01
Series:Contemporanea : Revista de Comunicação e Cultura
Online Access:http://www.portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/contemporaneaposcom/article/view/3498/2554