Prophets of Computing

Prophets of Computing
Author: Dick van Lente
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2022-12-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1450398189

When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines’ use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day. As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences. This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages—the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of "the future with computers."

ICL

ICL
Author: Martin Campbell-Kelly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990
Genre:
ISBN:

Bible and Computer

Bible and Computer
Author: Cook
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004493336

The book deals with the appropriate application of the computer by textual critics, grammarians, exegetes, (Bible) translators and theologians. It contains directions for educational purposes and editors of journals and texts, the collation of mss and new projects are demonstrated. The computer can assist the researcher variously; by putting him/her in the position to deal with large corpora of data. Basic research can thus be executed more readily. Powerful search programmes such as Quest II are explained. The results of more sophisticated programming are demonstrated. Not just the micro unit, the lexeme, can be studied, for semantical purposes, but also the macro picture, such as syntactical structures. Finally the book deals with methodological issues pertaining to the appropriate application of the computer. Users are warned against unreflected use of computers.

Anglophonia

Anglophonia
Author: Collectif d'auteurs,
Publisher: Presses Univ. du Mirail
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN: 9782858163519

Prophecy in the New Millennium

Prophecy in the New Millennium
Author: Suzanne Newcombe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317074599

Secular and spiritual prophets of doom abound in the information-rich twenty-first century - as they have for millennia. But there has yet to be worldwide floods, meteor impact, global computer failure, obvious alien contact, or direct intervention from God to end the world as we know it. Considering the frequency with which prophecy apparently fails, why do prophecies continue to be made, and what social functions do they serve? This volume gives a concise, but comprehensive, overview of the rich diversity of prophecy, its role in major world religions as well as in new religions and alternative spiritualties, its social dynamics and its impact on individuals’ lives. Academic analyses are complimented with contextualized primary source testimonies of those who live and have lived within a prophetic framework. The book argues that the key to understanding the more dramatic, apocalyptic and millenarian aspects of prophecy is in appreciating prophecy’s more mundane manifestations and its role in providing meaning and motivation in everyday life.

Secrets of the Holy Bible

Secrets of the Holy Bible
Author: Last Prophets
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2011-04-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1456711636

This book uses both modern science and biblical references together without contradiction. This book releases for the first time, secret codes in the bible which disclose the approximate dates of all events in the book of Revelation which includes the dates of all seven seals and what they really are, and the exact date the Antichrist and false prophets are due to arrive, and what 666 really stands for in the ancient text. This book also exploits hypocrisies of our society and explains biblical misconceptions and loop holes in the bible and shows the reader how far fetched you could make religion because of these loop holes. This book also categorizes and groups together bible verses related to similar topics for your convenience and reference; and most importantly, this book documents with over 2,900 different bible verses what the bible really says.