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Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age

Paperback • 1984 • English

Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age

By J. David Bolter

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Trained in both classics and computer science, Bolter considers the cultural impact of computers on our age, comparing the computer to earlier technologies that redefined fundamental notions of time, space, language, memory, and human creativity. Surprisingly, he finds that in many ways the outlook of the computer age bears more resemblance to that of the ancient world than to that of the Enlightenment. The classical philosopher and the computer programmer share share a suspicion of infinity, an...Show more

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9780807841082

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1984

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English

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Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age

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