Digital Doomsday The Y2k Bug And The Turn Of The Century

Author : ChatStick Team
Publisher : ChatStick Team
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Digital Doomsday: The Y2K Bug and the Turn of the Century by ChatStick Team Pdf

At the brink of the new millennium, the world stood on the edge of digital uncertainty. "Digital Doomsday: The Y2K Bug and the Turn of the Century" is a comprehensive exploration of the technological phenomenon that captivated global consciousness. This riveting book delves deep into the heart of the Y2K crisis, unraveling the complex web of technological advancements, global preparations, and the collective human response to a potential digital apocalypse. 🌍 Discover the Global Response: Journey through the unprecedented global effort to avert a technological catastrophe. From the corridors of power in Washington to the bustling streets of Tokyo, learn how nations united to face a common digital foe. 💡 Uncover the Lessons Learned: Beyond the immediate challenge, the Y2K event reshaped our approach to digital technology and risk management. This book provides invaluable insights into the advancements in software development practices, crisis management, and the lasting impact on IT and project management strategies. 🎭 Explore the Cultural Impact: The Y2K bug transcended technology, embedding itself into popular culture and public consciousness. Experience how this moment in history influenced films, literature, and art, becoming a symbol of the era's technological anxieties and aspirations. 🔍 Reflect on the Legacy: With meticulous analysis and engaging narrative, "Digital Doomsday" invites readers to reflect on the legacy of the Y2K bug as a pivotal moment in the digital era, offering lessons for confronting future technological challenges. This book is an essential read for anyone fascinated by the intersection of technology, history, and society. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a student of history, or simply intrigued by the turn of the millennium, "Digital Doomsday" offers a captivating account of one of the most intriguing events of the 20th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004698321

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The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture by Anonim Pdf

The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture examines the gothic mode deployed in a variety of texts that touch upon inherently US American themes, demonstrating its versatility and ubiquity across genres and popular media. The volume is divided into four main thematic sections, spanning representations related to ethnic minorities, bodily monstrosity, environmental anxieties, and haunted technology. The chapters explore both overtly gothic texts and pop culture artifacts that, despite not being widely considered strictly so, rely on gothic strategies and narrative devices.

Author : Michael Hyatt
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems)
ISBN : 0895263343

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The Millennium Bug by Michael Hyatt Pdf

Michael Hyatt predicts chaos at the turn of the century as computer systems crash around the world due to the millennium bug. He explains the problems and shows you how to protect yourself from the worst.

Author : Neville G. Warren
Publisher : Pascal Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Physics
ISBN : 1741250773

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Excel HSC Physics by Neville G. Warren Pdf

Author : Brian W. Fairbanks
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257876389

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Surviving Y2K: Staying On Top In A World Turned Upside Down by Brian W. Fairbanks Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Pakistan
ISBN : UCLA:L0079832077

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The Herald by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computer network resources
ISBN : UOM:39015048218773

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Windows Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Salvador Jimenez Murguía
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538103722

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Epic Fails by Salvador Jimenez Murguía Pdf

This book surveys some of the most iconic failures in American popular culture, from fashion flops to marketing mess-ups, shedding light on the inherent, often comic strain in American life between success and failure. In this engaging volume, the author explains how these came about and why they failed to catch on with the public.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015075716335

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The Skeptical Inquirer by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Brooke-Smith
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803991498

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Accelerate! by James Brooke-Smith Pdf

The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and Francis Fukuyama declared the 'end of history'. Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in which the president of the United States discussed fellatio on network television and the world's most photographed woman died in a car crash in Paris. Radical pop band The KLF burned a million quid on a Scottish island, while the most-watched programme on TV was Baywatch. Anti-globalisation protestors in France attacked McDonald's restaurants and American survivalists stockpiled guns and tinned food in preparation for Y2K. For those who lived through it, the 1990s glow in the memory with a mixture of proximity and distance, familiarity and strangeness. It is the decade about which we know so much yet understand too little. Taking a kaleidoscopic view of the politics, social history, arts and popular culture of the era, James Brooke-Smith asks – what was the 1990s? A lost golden age of liberal optimism? A time of fin-de-siècle decadence? Or the seedbed for the discontents we face today?

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1693566184

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The CTO's Guide to Code Quality by Mark Harrison Pdf

This is not a book about algorithms. This is not a book about architecture. This is not a book about frameworks. This is not even a book about project management, agile or otherwise.This is a book about "the other things" that are important to writing and maintaining a sustainable code base.It's also a book about automation of parts of the programming process.If you're a CTO, the economic case for "code quality plus automation" is already strong, and getting stronger with each new iteration of hardware.If you're a programmer (maybe aspiring to be a CTO), it's about being able to concentrate on the stimulating, interesting, and creative parts of the craft, and getting the tedious parts done for you.Much of the book is about the general craft of programming and helping programmers become more productive, and should be useful no matter what programming language(s) you've chosen.However, I find it works better to illustrate principles with examples. And this edition of the book picks examples from the PHP programming language.

Author : Robert X. Cringely
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780887308550

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Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely Pdf

Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great success stories in American business. Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on the remarkable technology they created. Cringely reveals the manias and foibles of these men (they are always men) with deadpan hilarity and cogently demonstrates how their neuroses have shaped the computer business. But Cringely gives us much more than high-tech voyeurism and insider gossip. From the birth of the transistor to the mid-life crisis of the computer industry, he spins a sweeping, uniquely American saga of creativity and ego that is at once uproarious, shocking and inspiring.

Author : William Strauss,Neil Howe
Publisher : Crown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780767900461

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The Fourth Turning by William Strauss,Neil Howe Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

Author : Nicholas Carr
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780393333947

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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr Pdf

"Future Shock for the Web-apps era.... Compulsively readable—for nontechies, too."—Fast Company Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr returns with The Big Switch, a sweeping look at how a new computer revolution is reshaping business, society, and culture. Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The effects of this transition will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. The Big Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the "World Wide Computer." New for the paperback edition, the book now includes an A–Z guide to the companies leading this transformation.

Author : Jonas Ingvarsson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Digital humanities
ISBN : 9783030787240

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Towards a Digital Epistemology by Jonas Ingvarsson Pdf

This Open Access book explores the concept of digital epistemology. In this context, the digital will not be understood as merely something that is linked to specific tools and objects, but rather as different modes of thought. For example, the digital within the humanities is not just databases and big data, topic modelling and speculative visualizations; nor are the objects limited to computer games, other electronic works, or to literature and art that explicitly relate to computerization or other digital aspects. In what way do digital tools and expressions in the 1960s differ to the ubiquitous systems of our time? What kind of artistic effects does this generate? Is the present theoretical fascination for materiality an effect or a reaction to a digitization? Above all: how can early modern forms such as the cabinets of curiosity, emblem books and the archival principle of pertinence contribute to the analyses of contemporary digital forms?