An essential digital native guide to know everything about the digital revolution in a click, with info sheets:
- The history of digitisation – from Gutenberg to AI
- The major figures – from Julius Caesar to Zuckerberg
- The objects – from the “Pascaline” to memory cards
- The places – from a garage to the cloud…
- The challenges and issues – Scratch, the environment, privacy, fake news…
The 21st century. Generation after generation dreamed about what this era would bring, imagining a future with robots walking among us, flying cars, or artificial intelligence serving human kind.
The 21st century has arrived, and yet cars still aren’t flying and there are no androids on the streets.
But… are we really that far off? Aren’t the smartphones that we all have in our pockets mini computers? And haven’t robots already helped us in many ways: visiting other planets, improving manufacturing processes, driving cars…
We’ve witnessed a true digital revolution. Throughout these pages, follow the men and women who have made technological history. Discover that, surprisingly, this revolution started well before the invention of the commuter and even before the invention of electricity. Some of these concepts have been around for over 3000 years! You will also get a glimpse of how profoundly our modern society has changed over the course of these breakthroughs and promised innovations.
This new digital world, it’s already here.