The future does not compute : transcending the machines in our midst /

"Many pundits tell you that the computer is ushering us toward a new Golden Age of Information. A few tell you that the computer is destroying everything worthwhile in our culture. But almost no one tells you what Stephen L. Talbott shows in this surprising book: the intelligent machine gathers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Talbott, Steve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly & Associates, ©1995.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Barfield, Owen, > 1898-1997.
Barfield, Owen, > 1898-1997
Computers and civilization.
Computers > Social aspects.
Computers > Psychological aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Ordinateurs > Aspect social.
Ordinateurs > Aspect psychologique.
Internet > Aspect social.
Computers and civilization
Computers > Psychological aspects
Computers > Social aspects
Internet > Social aspects
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Can human ideals survive the Internet?
  • The machine in the ghost
  • The future does not compute
  • Settlers in cyberspace
  • On being responsible for earth
  • Networks and communities
  • At the fringe of freedom
  • Things that run by themselves
  • Do we really want a global village?
  • Thoughts on a group support system
  • In summary
  • Net-based learning communities
  • Impressing the science out of children
  • Children of the machine
  • Dancing with my computer
  • Tyranny of the detached word
  • The great information hunt
  • And the word become mechanical
  • Listening for the silence
  • Awaking from the primordial dream
  • Mona Lisa's smile
  • Seeing the perspective
  • Can we transcend computation?
  • Electronic mysticism
  • What this book was about
  • Owen Barfield : the evolution of consciousness
  • From virtual to real
  • Education without computers.

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