Author: Jonathon Keats
Edition:
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004477HD8
Edition:
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004477HD8
Virtual Words:Language on the Edge of Science and Technology
The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. Get Virtual Words computer books for free.
How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), crowdsourcing (outsourcing to the masses), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in an industrial vat) enter our language?
In Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Jonathon Keats, author of Wired Magazine's monthly Jargon Watch column, investigates the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced tech-driven use-it-or-lose-it society. In 28 illuminating short essays, Keats examines how such words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, Check Virtual Words our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.
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In 28 illuminating short essays, Keats examines how such words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter,
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