Computers & computing

Logan, Robert K. The Fifth Language. Learning a Living in the Computer Age. Toronto, Canada: Stoddard. 1995.

To the traditional 'languages': speech, writing, mathematics and science, the author adds a fifth: computing, contending that it derives logically from the first four and from recent developments in communication. The problem many people encounter with computing is due to the fact that the new language is not being taught properly, but still under the confines of the schools and jobs we have which are based on a nineteenth-century industrial model. How do we overcome this dilemma? How do we keep pace with the developments in computer technology, especially when it advances faster than we can follow? You will find one answer in this interesting and well-written book.