Talking Back to the Machine

Computers and Human Aspiration

By: J. Burke (Introduction by), Peter J. Denning (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 June 1999

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From the editors of the wildly successful Beyond Calculation comes another exploration of the overwhelming impact of computers on our future. This time, the essays focus on the human impact of computer technology and culture: how computers will affect the ways we teach, learn, communicate, relate to each other, and live in the coming decades. The contributors, representing the best of many fields, include Secretary of Defense William Perry on how computers will affect warfare; Brian Ferrin on technology and storytelling; Patti Maes on intelligent agents; Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann on the quality of information; Eliot Soloway on the impact of computers on education; and many more. Like Beyond Calculation, praised by the New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach," this sequel engages readers with some of the most compelling and important issues of our time.

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Non-Fiction Mathematics Applied Mathematics Stochastics Computing & I.T.Information Technology General Issue Ethical & Social Aspects of IT Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Social Forecasting

Artificial Intelligence

Then Now	p. ix
Opening Connections	p. xix
The Folly of Prediction	p. 1
Life Without Bits	p. 15
Alternative Computing	p. 23
Very Personal Computers	p. 37
I, Software	p. 45
The Lost Art of Storytelling	p. 55
The Digital Battlefield	p. 71
Entering the Age of Convenience	p. 81
In the Belly of the Net	p. 89
When Computers Become Human	p. 99
A Half Century of Surprises	p. 111
The Interactive Classroom	p. 117
Delivering Bandwidth Like Pizza	p. 125
Weird Futures	p. 133
Teleportation, Time Travel, and Immortality	p. 143
Pulling Diamonds from the Clay	p. 155
Closing Connections	p. 167
The Relics of '97	p. 175
Index	p. 189
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Talking Back to the Machine

Computers and Human Aspiration

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