Cognition distributed : how cognitive technology extends our minds /
Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 16. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate, allowing us to do collectively far more than any of us could have done individually. The invention of writing six millennia ago and print six centuries ago has distributed cognition still more widely and quickly, among people as well as their texts. But in recent decades something radically new has been happening: Adv. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027222466 9027222460 9789027289643 9027289646 1282104675 9781282104679 9786612104671 6612104678 |