Talking Back to the Machine: Computers and Human Aspiration - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1461274338 ISBN 13: 9781461274339

Casa editrice: Copernicus, 2011

Riassunto

From the editors of the wildly successful Beyond Calculation, acclaimed by the New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach," comes a new collection of equal brilliance. Focusing on the human impact of computers, Talking to the Machine features such outstanding thinkers as Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, bestselling author James Burke, Defense Secretary William Perry and others, as they describe the many ways, both good and bad, in which our lives will be altered by information technology, and what we can do to influence these changes.

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Contenuti

Content.- 1. The Folly of Prediction.- 2. Life Without Bits.- 3. Alternative Computing.- 4. Very Personal Computers.- 5. I, Software.- 6. The Lost Art of Storytelling.- 7. The Digital Battlefield.- 8. Entering the Age of Convenience.- 9. In the Belly of the Net.- 10. When Computers Become Human.- 11. A Half Century of Surprises.- 12. The Interactive Classroom.- 13. Delivering Bandwidth Like Pizza.- 14. Weird Futures.- 15. Teleportation, Time Travel, and Immortality.- 16. Pulling Diamonds from the Clay.- Closing Connections.- The Relics of ’97.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Copernicus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1461274338
• ISBN 13: 9781461274339
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 220
• Redattore: Denning Peter J.
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