The Fifth Language: Learning a Living in the Computer Age [Paperback]

Robert Logan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Stoddart (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0773758763
• ISBN-13: 978-0773758766
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,836,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Robert K. Logan is Professor Emeritus in physics at the U. of Toronto and Chief Scientist at the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Logan has edited collections about Canadian politics (The Way Ahead for Canada and Canada's Third Option) based on his experiences as one of Pierre Trudeau's policy advisers. He has written about media and communications (The Alphabet Effect, The Fifth Language and The Sixth Language) based on his experience of collaborating and publishing with Marshall McLuhan. His book co-authored with McLuhan sits unpublished in the Canadian Archives in Ottawa, He has also written on the origin of language (The Extended Mind). Three new books are in the works at their respective publishers: Understanding New Media and What is Information based on work at the sLab and The Poetry of Physics based on a course of the same name that Logan has taught at U of T since 1971.