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Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions

The book expresses the conviction that the art of creating tools - Greek techne - changes its character together with the change of civilization epochs and co-determines such changes. This does not mean that tools typical for a civilization epoch determine it completely, but they change our way of p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wierzbicki, Andrzej Piotr (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 71
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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