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Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist by Jacques Vallee - 1982

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Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist

by Jacques Vallee

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Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All in VG order throughout. Clean yellow cloth boards. Publishing info slightly confusing. Block appears to be the US first edition from And/Or Press, but bound with Prism Press (UK) covers and dustjacket. The latter unclipped, VG, and just a little faded to spine.This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831).

  • Bookseller Independent bookstores GB (GB)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0907061346
  • ISBN 13 9780907061342
  • Publisher And/Or Press
  • Place of Publication Berkeley
  • Date Published 1982
  • Pages 213
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist

The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist

by Jacques Vallee

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THE NETWORK REVOLUTION: Confessions of a Computer Scientist.

by Vallee, Jacques

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Berkeley, CA:: And/Or Press,, (1982). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers - minor wear to covers, light reading crease on spine. Scarce in the first edition. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Trained initially in astrophysics and as an astronomer, Vallee was involved in early research into artificial intelligence in the 1960s, and in 1972, he became the principal investigator on the National Science Foundation project for computer networking, which developed one of the first ARPANET conferencing systems, Planning Network (PLANET), which predated instant messaging by many years. This book, written in non-technical language focuses on how computers have put humanity at a crossroads and have the power to change our lives - which they have done far more than envisioned. With the 2023 explosion of Chat AI, an anecdote he quotes from the French author Collette is more appropriate than ever. She describes a cataloguer at Paris's Bibliotheque… Read More
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by Vallee, Jacques

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Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1982. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Jacques Vallee on the title page. x, 213 pp. Publisher's wraps. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges. Information theorist and computer science pioneer Jacques Vallee's vision of the future of computers and "the new information networks." Only two copies found in OCLC WorldCat, neither in the US. Rare in its first edition as a paperback original, especially so signed.
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