By: Ron White, Que Publication
This book is based on two ideas. One is that the magic we understand is safer and more powerful than the magic we don’t. This is not a hands-on how-to book. Don’t look for any instructions for taking a screwdriver to this part or the other. But perhaps your knowing more about what’s going on inside all those stoic components makes them a little less formidable when something does go awry. The second idea behind this book is that knowledge, in itself, is a worthwhile and enjoyable goal.
This book is written to respond to your random musings about the goings-on inside that box you sit in front of several hours a day. If this book puts your questions to rest—or raises new ones—it will have done its job. At the same time, however, I’m trusting that knowing the secrets behind the magician’s legerdemain won’t spoil the show. This is a real danger. Mystery is often as compelling as knowledge. I’d hate to think that anything you read in this book takes away that sense of wonder you have when you manage to make your PC do some grand, new trick. I hope that, instead, this book makes you a more confident sorcerer.
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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: What makes a Computer a Computer
- Chapter 2: Software - The Computer's Own Poetry
- Chapter 3: How Computers Evolve
- Chapter 4: How Computers Expand our Senses
- Chapter 5: The Little Net that Grew
- Chapter 6: How Printers Put Data in our Hands
- Chapter 7: So, what's next?
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