Turing's Man : Western Culture in the Computer Age /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bolter, J. David, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Zivilisation
Gesellschaft
Computer
Technischer Fortschritt
Philosophie
Kulturphilosophie
Datenverarbeitung
Computers and civilization.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Defining technologies in western culture
  • Principles of operation
  • Embodied symbol: mathematics by computer
  • Embodied symbol: logic by computer
  • Electronic space
  • Time and progress in the computer age
  • Electronic language
  • Electronic memory
  • Creator and creation
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Conclusion.

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