Slaves of the Machine: The Quickening of Computer Technology (Bradford Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262181835 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 145 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Written in an accessible, anecdotal form, Slaves of the Machine presents the birth of the computer, charts its evolution, and envisions its development over the next fifty years. E. Each of the six chapters asks a simple question: What are computers? How do we build them? How do we talk to them? How do we program them? What can't they do? Could they think? After answering its question, each chapter views its topic in terms of the state of the art as of 1997 and into the near future. Rawlins took lay readers on a tour of the exciting and sometimes scary world to which compters are leading us. In Moths to the Flame, Gregory J. This new book is for those who are new to computers and want to know what is "under the hood." It shows what computers can do for us and to us. It tells the story of how we became slaves to our machines and how our machines may one day become slaves to us. Rawlins successfully
He can explain, for example, the challenges of computer programming in terms of trying to get a "Napoleonic army of idiots" to invade Russia. And in just such a way he evolves a picture of what future computers might mean to society by taking the reader point by point through cyberhistory, science, and mechanics. . Gregory Rawlins has a gift for explaining complex things in ways that not only make them crystal clear but also delightfully funny. It's an extremely sensible look at past and present reality with an eq
"Computer history, philosophy and speculative science at their best" according to Peter D. Tillman. Prof. Rawlins has written an elegant small book on the history andfuture of computers, ranging from Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine(18Computer history, philosophy and speculative science at their best Peter D. Tillman Prof. Rawlins has written an elegant small book on the history andfuture of computers, ranging from Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine(1842) to future machine intelligence. His book joins suchdistinguished predecessors as Hans Moravec's "Mind Children" and EricDrexler's "Engines of Creation": speculat. 2) to future machine intelligence. His book joins suchdistinguished predecessors as Hans Moravec's "Mind Children" and EricDrexler's "Engines of Creation": speculat. Afra Ahmad said Excellant for new comers. I was recently assigned this book by a Java computer course as a general read. As I am not new to the ideas of computers and/or programming them, and even though this book is geared towards newcomers to the computer world, I still learnt interesting facts."Slaves of the Machine" was written with a very