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1) The matrix
Series
[Matrix trilogy] volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A computer hacker discovers that reality is nothing more than an elaborate facade called the Matrix, created by super-intelligent robots that have enslaved mankind and are using their bodies as a power source. The reality is that the world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun to control humans.
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the computer from Charles Babbage's Victorian counting machine to the desktop models of the 1990s. Journeys into the fast-paced world of technology and innovation to expose the phenomenal history of the most influential invention of modern times.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the modern world into existence. Today a similar revolution is under way. Companies are dismantling their private computer systems and tapping into rich services delivered over the Internet. This time it's computing...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots once primarily threatened blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but today's machines are being trained to do the work of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, and other white-collar jobs previously considered safe from automation's...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
[c2002]
Language
English
Description
Three part "irreverent" documentary of the personal computer industry and its creators.
Impressing their friends: Bob Cringely, Silicon Valley and some spectacularly successful nerds. Intel. The Altair 8800 and the Homebrew Computer Club. Enter Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Steve Jobs, at 25, worth $100 million. The imminent arrival of IBM. Computer nerds impressing their friends.
Riding the bear: IBM's decision, "buy not build" PC technology. The...
Author
Publisher
mineditionUS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bix lives with her family in a city where people rarely talk or play together, and no longer read books. Instead, they stare at small portable screens, monitored by giant eyeballs. The Eyes are here to help! With everything. But Bix would like to do things for herself. Running from an Eye, she discovers another world: the City Under the City. There, she befriends a rat who leads her to a library and its treasure trove of books and knowledge. As she...
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