本書所談的是中文電腦史。然而更重要的是，它是通往書寫歷史新時代的初步路線圖。從「拼音」步入「超書寫」 數位時代的中文如何從巨大的檢索字盤，走到現今的「超書寫」快速輸入？--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------「《中文數位探索》是第一本探討數位時代中文發展史的書籍，以跨越十五年以上的研究為基礎，追溯了電子化中文從二戰結束誕生後，直至今日的繁榮發展過程。這部作品基於口述歷史、實體文物及來自亞洲、歐洲和北美幾十家館藏檔案。描述了包括IBM、中國中央新聞社、RCA、麻省理工學院、中央情報局、美國空軍、美國陸軍、五角大廈、蘭德公司、英國電信巨頭Cable and Wireless（大東電報局）、矽谷、台灣軍方、日本工業界，以及中國大陸的高層智庫、工業和軍事機構中，那些古怪且精彩的人物故事。」本書是墨磊寧教授研究漢字從打字機時代到資訊時代的輸入法演進過程的第二本書。承接第一本《中文打字機》的論述，這本《中文數位探索》從1940年代美國IBM公司推出的中文打字機開始談起，談論中文字如何與電腦結合，結合過程當中的各種輸入法嘗試，也會觸及當前數位時代的漢字輸入展望。本書要回答的核心問題，是《中文打字機》裡尚未被完全解決的一個大哉問：「如何用一組鍵盤打出上百萬字的中文？」這曾經被認為是不可能的事，卻在漢字化入拼音系統後，在電腦時代達成了。這也造就了當前漢字的廣泛流通。在個人電腦仍是雛形的時代，中文輸入就以圖形組成的方式，部首拆分的方式，集結各路菁英的熱情投入，研究出各種各樣的組合輸入方式。也因著QWERTY鍵盤在電腦輸入上成為主流，而使輸入方式聚焦在這有限的鍵盤上，衍生出倉頡、注音、拼音等各種輸入法，對輸入法的研究熱情在華文世界至今仍未休止。硬體的改進也促進了中文輸入的速度，從插入漢卡，到隨著電腦容量與計算能力的激增，一步步打造中文輸入更順暢的世界。本書提出中文輸入的六大面向，依時序分章探討，包括自動完成、中文鍵盤、輸入法戰爭、印表機周邊、中文模組化，以及所謂「超書寫」的出現如何衝擊並影響了中文輸入法及漢字的未來。另外，作者也觀察到當前中文在網路世界盛行的風潮，以及新一代中國年輕人「提筆忘字」的危機。這兩個並存但矛盾的現
A volume in Studies in the History of Education Series Editor: Karen L. Riley, Auburn University at Montgomery The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how
A truly global view of history covering over 350 of the world's most important turning points. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, this is an essential gift for every history buff. World History is the
In the concluding chapters of this book the author introduces GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine. GIM is a huge global hybrid machine, a combination of production machinery, information machinery and mechanized networks. In the future it may very well encompass all machinery on the globe.The author discusses the development of machines from the Stone Age until the present and pays particular attention to the rise of the science of machines and the development of the relationship between science and technology. The first production and information tools were invented in the Stone Age. In the Agricultural empires tools and machinery became more complex. During and after the Industrial Revolution the pace of innovation accelerated. In the 20th century the mechanization of production, information processing and networks became increasingly sophisticated. GIM is the culmination of this development.GIM is no science fiction. GIM exists and is growing and getting smarte
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world
Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to chall
Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to chall
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of 'openness' to describe their ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other 'open' systems still depend heavi
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of 'openness' to describe their ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other 'open' systems still depend heavi
The essays in this volume probe the impact the digital revolution has had, or sometimes failed to have, on global business. Has digital technology, the authors ask, led to structural changes and greater efficiency and innovation? While most of the essays support the idea that the information age has increased productivity in global business, the evidence of a 'revolution' in the ways industries are organized is somewhat more blurred, with both significant discontinuities and features which persist from the 'second' industrial revolution.
Permian and Triassic rocks in the eastern Tethyan region form continuous marine sequences that record the waning phases of the Paleozoic and the early stages of the Mesozoic eras. This book describes and interprets these rocks, summarizing the distribution of major fossil groups in a way that will allow detailed comparison with strata of comparable age in the western Tethys and other parts of the world. The sixteen contributions by forty authors are the culmination of the five-year long International Geological Correlation Programme Project 203. The detailed information presented here is gathered from many areas in the eastern Tethyan region - from France to Australia - and will be of use in the evaluation of the major changes in the global marine biosphere known to have taken place at the end of the Paleozoic era. The stratigraphic record for this fascinating segment of Earth history is not widespread elsewhere in the world and is most continuous in the region covered by this book.
