TY - BOOK AU - Davies,Paul A. TI - Information technology: Oxford Bookworms Stage 3 T2 - Oxford Bookworms Library. Factfiles. Stage 3 SN - 9780194233927 AV - PE1126.A4 D35 2008 U1 - 428.6 22 PY - 0000/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Readers (Adult) KW - English language KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - Reading comprehension KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - High interest-low vocabulary books KW - Readers for new literates KW - Information technology KW - History KW - Computers KW - Computer literacy KW - Computer Literacy KW - Anglais (Langue) KW - Lectures et morceaux choisis pour adultes KW - Manuels pour allophones KW - Livres de lecture facile KW - Technologie de l'information KW - Histoire KW - Ordinateurs KW - Connaissances en informatique KW - fast KW - Problems and exercises KW - Textbooks KW - for foreign speakers KW - lcgft N1 - "First published in Oxford Bookworms, 2008"--Title page verso; The computer age -- In the beginning -- The first computer -- Alan Turing -- The history of the PC -- Bill Gates and Microsoft -- Humans against computers -- The Internet -- Power to the people -- Getting the message -- Moble phones -- Computer games -- I love you (and other viruses) -- Computer crimes -- The future N2 - It is a story of machines - from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. Meet a woman who wrote computer programs two hundred years ago, a teenage millionaire, a man who began with a paperclip and ended with a house, and the criminals who want your name and your money ER -