The future does not compute : transcending the machines in our midst
Many pundits tell you that the computer is ushering us toward a new Golden Age of Information. A few tell you that the computer is destroying everything worthwhile in our culture. But almost no one tells you what Stephen L. Talbott shows in this surprising book: the intelligent machine gathers its m...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
O'Reilly & Associates
1995
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629776206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Can human ideals survive the Internet?
- The machine in the ghost
- The future does not compute
- Settlers in cyberspace
- On being responsible for earth
- Networks and communities
- At the fringe of freedom
- Things that run by themselves
- Do we really want a global village?
- Thoughts on a group support system
- In summary
- Net-based learning communities
- Impressing the science out of children
- Children of the machine
- Dancing with my computer
- Tyranny of the detached word
- The great information hunt
- And the word become mechanical
- Listening for the silence
- Awaking from the primordial dream
- Mona Lisa's smile
- Seeing the perspective
- Can we transcend computation?
- Electronic mysticism
- What this book was about
- Owen Barfield : the evolution of consciousness
- From virtual to real
- Education without computers.
