How Computers Work: The Evolution of Technology, 10th Edition

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The Evolution of Technology

Having sold more than 2 million copies over its lifetime, How Computers Work is the definitive illustrated guide to the world of PCs and technology. On this new edition, you’ll find detailed information not almost about PCs, but about how changes in technology have evolved the giant, expensive computer dinosaurs of last century into the smaller but more powerful smartphones, tablets, and wearable computing of these days. Whether your interest is in business, gaming, digital photography, entertainment, communications, or security, you’ll find out how computing is evolving the best way you live.

A full-color, illustrated adventure into the wonders of TECHNOLOOGY

This full-color, fully illustrated guide to the world of technology assumes nothing and explains the whole lot. Only the accomplished and award-winning team of author Ron White and artist Tim Downs has the unique ability to meld descriptive text with one-of-a-kind visuals to completely provide an explanation for how the electronic gear we rely on each day is made imaginable. Along with the entire content you’ve come to expect from prior editions, this newly revised edition includes all-new coverage of topics such as:

•   How smartphones and tablet PCs put the ability of a desktop computer on your hands–literally

•   How computing technology is linking our homes, work place, entertainment, and day-to-day communications

•   How advances such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay, and smartphones are expanding our universe of friends, knowledge, and opportunity

•   How increased miniaturization results in new products, such as smartphone, smartwatches, and Google Glass

•   How computing technology takes advantages of quantum physics and innovations nobody even imagined a couple of years ago

For twenty years, How Computers Work has helped newbies be aware new technology, even as hackers and IT pros have treasured it for the depth of knowledge it comprises. That is the very best book about computing to capture your imagination, delight your eyes, and expand your mind, it doesn’t matter what your technical level!

Beautifully detailed illustrations and jargon-free explanations walk you in the course of the technology that may be shaping our lives. See the hidden workings inside computers, smartphones, tablets, Google Glass, and the contemporary tech inventions.