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Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way
[Buy it!] | Shatner, William; Fisher, David | USD 15.45
(Sun May 26 19:44:51 2024) | AbebooksUK | London Bridge Books | ISBN10: 1250166691, ISBN13: 9781250166692, [publisher: Thomas Dunne Books] Hardcover
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018] |
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Turing's Man : Western Culture in the Computer Age
[Buy it!] | J. David Bolter | USD 69.69
(Sun May 26 19:44:54 2024) | AbebooksDE | AHA-BUCH GmbH | ISBN10: 0807841080, ISBN13: 9780807841082, [publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Trained in both classics and computer science, Bolter considers the cultural impact of computers on our age, comparing the computer to earlier technologies that redefined fundamental notions of time, space, language, memory, and human creativity. Surprisingly, he finds that in many ways the outlook of the computer age bears more resemblance to that of the ancient world than to that of the Enlightenment. The classical philosopher and the computer programmer share share a suspicion of infinity, an acceptance of necessary limitations on human achievement, and a belief that results are more important than motives.Although Bolter fears that the growing use of computers may well diminish out culture's sense of the historical and intellectual context of human endeavor, he contends that the computer also offers new ways of looking at intellectual freedom, creativity, and the conservation of precious resources.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1984]
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