Plato and the Nerd The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership. In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints b...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge
MIT Press
2017
The MIT Press |
| Vydání: | 1 |
| Edice: | The MIT Press |
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| ISBN: | 9780262036481, 0262536420, 0262036487, 9780262536424, 0262341204, 9780262341202 |
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- Contents Preface I Yang 1 Shadows on the Wall 2 Inventing Laws of Nature 3 Models of Models of Models of Models of Things 4 Hardware Is Ephemeral 5 Software Endures 6 Evolution and Revolution II Yin 7 Information 8 The Limits of Software 9 Symbiosis 10 Determinism 11 Probability and Possibility 12 Final Thoughts Bibliography Index Cover Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Yang -- 1. Shadows on the Wall -- 1.1. Nerds -- 1.2. Artificial and Natural -- 1.3. Design and Discovery -- 1.4. Engineering and Science -- 2. Inventing Laws of Nature -- 2.1. The Unknown Knowns -- 2.2. Models of Nature -- 2.3. Models Are Wrong -- 3. Models of Models of Models of Models of Things -- 3.1. Technological Tapestries -- 3.2. Complexity Simplified -- 3.3. Transitivity of Models -- 3.4. Reductionism -- 4. Hardware Is Ephemeral -- 4.1. Hard and Soft -- 4.2. Semiconductors -- 4.3. Digital Switches -- 4.4. Logic Gates -- 4.5. Logic Diagrams -- 4.6. Digital Machines -- 5. Software Endures -- 5.1. Self-Scaffolding -- 5.2. Instruction Set Architectures -- 5.3. Programming Languages -- 5.4. Operating Systems -- 5.5. Libraries, Languages, and Dialects -- 5.6. The Cloud -- 6. Evolution and Revolution -- 6.1. Normal Engineering -- 6.2. Crisis and Failure -- 6.3. Crisis and Opportunity -- 6.4. Models in Crisis -- II. Yin -- 7. Information -- 7.1. Pessimism Becomes Optimism -- 7.2. Information-Processing Machines -- 7.3. Measuring Information -- 7.4. Continuous Information -- 8. The Limits of Software -- 8.1. Universal Machines? -- 8.2. Undecidability -- 8.3. Cardinality -- 8.4. Digital Physics? -- 9. Symbiosis -- 9.1. The Notion of a Continuum -- 9.2. The Impossible Becomes Possible -- 9.3. Digital Psyche? -- 9.4. Symbiotic Partnership -- 9.5. Incompleteness -- 10. Determinism -- 10.1. Laplace's Demon -- 10.2. The Butterfly Effect -- 10.3. Incompleteness of Determinism -- 10.4. The Hard and the Soft of Determinism -- 11. Probability and Possibility -- 11.1. The Bayesians and the Frequentists -- 11.2. Continuums, Again -- 11.3. Impossibility and Improbability -- 12. Final Thoughts -- 12.1. Dualism -- 12.2. Obstacles -- 12.3. Autonomy and Intelligence -- Bibliography -- Index