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Talking back to the machine : computer and human aspriration
By, Denning, Peter J., ed.
Publisher: Copernicus
Class No.: 303.4834 DEN
Accession No.: 002325
Year: 1999
Of the week: 8th March. 2010 to 13th March. 2010
Focusing on the impact of computers on humans, this book features brilliant essays on how computers will affect the ways we live, learn, teach, communicate, and relate to each other in the coming decades.
How can we reconcile Shakespeare's account of human behavior and that of modern brain science? That's the central question addressed by the noted Glasgow chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith in this provocative, witty, and highly accessible discussion of conscious awareness, free will, and science.
From one of the editors of the renowned book Beyond Calculation, acclaimed by The New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach", comes a new collection of equal brilliance. Focusing on the impact of computers on humans, Talking to the Machine features essays on how computers will affect the ways we live, learn, teach, communicate, and relate to each other in the coming decades.
Outstanding contemporary thinkers, representing the best of many fields, include:
Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, on the quality of information
Secretary of DefenseWilliam Perry, on how computers will affect warfare
Eliot Soloway, on the impact of computers on education
Other contributors include Robert Metcalfe, James Burke, Bruce Sterling, plus many other pioneers. They describe the myriad ways, both good and bad, in which our lives will be altered by information technology, and what we can do to influence these changes.
Providing a detailed look at the likely futures of computing, computers, and how they will influence our lives, Talking Back to the Machine is a must-read for anyone who is interested in technology and society.
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