Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer AgeUNC Press Books, 1984 - 264 páginas Discusses the role of technology in Western civilization and examines the impact of the computer on modern culture |
Contenido
Introduction The Measure of Technological Change | 3 |
The Computer as a Defining Technology | 8 |
Turings Man | 12 |
Defining Technologies In Western Culture | 15 |
Manual Technology and the Ancient World | 17 |
Mechanical Technology and Western Europe | 24 |
Dynamic Technology and Western Europe | 29 |
Electronic Technology | 32 |
Electronic Language | 124 |
The Hierarchy off Computer Language | 127 |
Poetry and Logic | 132 |
The Ancient View | 134 |
The Western European View | 138 |
Silent Structures | 145 |
Electronic Memory | 151 |
Digital Memory Technology | 152 |
From the Clock to the Computer | 37 |
The Electronic Brain | 40 |
Principles of Operation | 43 |
The von Neumann Computer | 47 |
Hardware and Software | 49 |
Embodied Symbol Mathematics by Computer | 53 |
Binary Representation and Numerical Analysis | 54 |
Mathematics and Culture | 59 |
Embodied Mathematics | 63 |
Embodied Symbol Logic by Computer | 66 |
Truth and the von Neumann Machine | 67 |
The Triumph of Logic | 71 |
The Embodiment of Logical Thought | 75 |
Electronic Space | 80 |
Physical Space | 81 |
Logical Space | 83 |
Finite Place | 90 |
Infinite Space | 93 |
The Geometry of Electronic Space | 96 |
Time and Progress in the Computer Age | 100 |
Electronic Clocks | 101 |
Time Experienced and Measured | 105 |
Progress In Circles | 109 |
The Idea off Progress | 115 |
The Art of Memory | 157 |
Information Retrieval and Electronic Power | 162 |
Creator and Creation | 165 |
Coherence and Correspondence | 166 |
Electronic Limits | 174 |
Creating by Hand and by Machine | 180 |
Reason and Necessity | 184 |
Electronic Play | 186 |
Artificial Intelligence | 189 |
Turings Game 191 | 191 |
Language Memory and Other Games | 197 |
The Technology of Making Man | 201 |
The Electronic Image of Man | 206 |
Artifact and Artificer | 211 |
Natural Man | 214 |
From Socrates to Faust to Turing | 216 |
Living with Turings Man | 228 |
Invention and Discovery | 231 |
The Computer as a Tool | 232 |
Synthetic Intelligence | 238 |
Glossary of Computer Terms | 241 |
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