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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1. Verfasser: Lee, Edward Ashford
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge MIT Press 2017
The MIT Press
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Schriftenreihe:The MIT Press
Schlagworte:
algorithm
Aristotle
artificial intelligence
Bekenstein
Bell Labs
Berners-Lee
Bohr
Boltzmann
Boyle's law
Cantor
Charles' law
cloud computing
compiler
computable
Computer Science
Computer science > Popular works
Computing and Processing
concrete model
continuous entropy
Creative ability
cryptography
cyber-physical system
describable
digital chaos
digital machine
digital physics
Edsger Dijkstra
effectively computable
Einstein
emergent phenomena
encryption
Engineering
Facebook
falsifiability
General Topics for Engineers
Golomb
Google
Go¨ del
Heisenberg
Impact of science and technology on society
Intermediate technology
Inventions
Inventions and inventors
Kuhn
machine learning
Mathematics and Science
open source
operating system
Penrose
Popper
positivist
probability
programming language
quantum computing
quantum mechanics
relativity
Science: general issues
Searle
self-driving car
self-reference
semantics
Serres
Silicon Valley
Stephen Hawking
systems
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Technology > Philosophy
Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
Technology: general issues
Turing
Turing machine
von Neumann
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