Devices of the soul battling for our selves in an age of machines
""Self-forgetfulness is the reigning temptation of the technological era. This is why we so readily give our assent to the absurd proposition that a computer can add two plus two, despite the obvious fact that it can do nothing of the sort--not if we have in mind anything remotely resembl...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly Media
2007.
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627027306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Devices of the Soul; Credits; I. Technology, Nature, and the Human Prospect; 1.2. The Man of Many Devices; 1.3. Balance and Separation; 1.4. Reckoning with the Scoundrel; 1.5. Reversals; 1.6. Triumph of the Contrivance; 1.7. Rousing Ourselves; 2. Hold a Blossom to the Light; 2.2. The Powers of Recognition; 2.3. Puzzling Knowledge; 2.4. Seeking a New Balance; 2.5. The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees; 2.6. Don&t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills; 3. Toward an Ecological Conversation; 3.2. Permission and Responsibility; 3.3. Approaching Mystery; 3.4. Where Does the Wild Live?
- 3.5. Toward Creative Responsibility3.6. A Word Unasked For; II. Extraordinary Lives; 4.2. Lost Sight, Second Sight; 4.3. Dangers; 4.4. Attending to the World with New Eyes; 4.5. The Human Being as a Developing Potential; 4.6. Saving Illnesses; 4.7. Addendum: The Living and the Dead; 4.8. From And There Was Light; 5. The Many Voices of Destiny; 5.2. At Harvard; 5.3. Enjoying Life; 5.4. Listening; 5.5. Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves; 5.6. On the New Eugenics; 6. On Forgetting to Wear Boots; 6.2. Trying to Communicate; 6.3. Gift-Bearers; 6.4. Serving the Other; 6.5. Of Accident and Destiny
- 6.6. A Parent&s Disconcerting RevelationIII. From Information to Education; 6.2. Living in a Virtual World; 6.3. Learning the Language of Horses; 6.4. A Chickadee Lesson; 8. Failure to Connect; 8.2. Remembering the Alternatives; 9. Educational Provocations; 10. Three Notes: On Baby Walkers, Video Games, and Sex; 10.2. Pianists and Video Game Players; 10.3. Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform; 11. Who&s Killing Higher Education?(Or Is It Suicide?); 11.2. Buying an Education More Cheaply; 11.3. The Credentialed Society; 11.4. Toward Greater Standardization; 11.5. Becoming Qualified
- 11.6. Nothing to TeachIV. On Socializing Our Machines; 13. Flesh and Machines:The Mere Assertions of Rodney Brooks; 13.2. Order and Form; 13.3. Losing Consciousness; 13.4. Turnabout Is Fair Play; 14. From HAL to Kismet; 14.2. How Do You Simulate Life?; 14.3. Invisible Authors; 14.4. Learning from Kismet; 15. Invisible Tools or Emotionally Supportive Pals?; 15.2. Complementary Errors; 15.3. The Computer in Context; V. On Mechanizing Society; 17. The Threat of Technology That Works Well; 17.2. An Information Arms Race; 17.3. Do Cell Phones Make Us Safer?
- 17.4. Will Lie-Detecting Software Make Us More Trustworthy?17.5. The Automobile; 17.6. Being Positive by Being Negative; 18. The Ideal of Ubiquitous Technology; 18.2. There Are No Solutions; 18.3. Not Solutions, But a Strengthening of the ""I""; 18.4. Automating on Principle; 18.5. A Strengthened Inner Activity; 19. Privacy in an Age of Data; 19.2. The Privacy of Community; 20. A Taste for Number Magic; 20.2. Flights of Abstraction; 20.3. All You Need Is Numbers; 20.4. Cutting Ourselves Off from Change; 20.5. Beyond the Gambling Hall; 21. The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents
- 21.2. Personalizing Our Transactions
