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Plato and the nerd : = the creative partnership of humans and technology /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Plato and the nerd :/ Edward Ashford Lee.
Reminder of title:	the creative partnership of humans and technology /
Author:	Lee, Edward A.,
Description:	1 PDF (xvi, 266 pages) :illustrations. :
Subject:	Technology - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=8076701
ISBN:	9780262341202

Plato and the nerd : = the creative partnership of humans and technology /
Lee, Edward A.,1957-

Plato and the nerd :the creative partnership of humans and technology /Edward Ashford Lee. - 1 PDF (xvi, 266 pages) :illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; I Yang; 1 Shadows on the Wall; 1.1 Nerds; 1.2 Artificial and Natural; 1.3 Design and Discovery; 1.4 Engineering and Science; 2 Inventing Laws of Nature; 2.1 The Unknown Knowns; 2.2 Models of Nature; 2.3 Models Are Wrong; 3 Models of Models of Models of Models of Things; 3.1 Technological Tapestries; 3.2 Complexity Simplified; 3.3 Transitivity of Models; 3.4 Reductionism; 4 Hardware Is Ephemeral; 4.1 Hard and Soft; 4.2 Semiconductors; 4.3 Digital Switches; 4.4 Logic Gates; 4.5 Logic Diagrams; 4.6 Digital Machines; 5 Software Endures; 5.1 Self-Scaffolding

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans.

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780262341202Subjects--Topical Terms:

573633
Technology
--Philosophy.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

1006903
Popular works.

LC Class. No.: T14 / .L4254 2017eb

Dewey Class. No.: 601

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505 8 $a 5.2 Instruction Set Architectures5.3 Programming Languages; 5.4 Operating Systems; 5.5 Libraries, Languages, and Dialects; 5.6 The Cloud; 6 Evolution and Revolution; 6.1 Normal Engineering; 6.2 Crisis and Failure; 6.3 Crisis and Opportunity; 6.4 Models in Crisis; II Yin; 7 Information; 7.1 Pessimism Becomes Optimism; 7.2 Information-Processing Machines; 7.3 Measuring Information; 7.4 Continuous Information; 8 The Limits of Software; 8.1 Universal Machines?; 8.2 Undecidability; 8.3 Cardinality; 8.4 Digital Physics?; 9 Symbiosis; 9.1 The Notion of a Continuum
505 8 $a 9.2 The Impossible Becomes Possible9.3 Digital Psyche?; 9.4 Symbiotic Partnership; 9.5 Incompleteness; 10 Determinism; 10.1 Laplace's Demon; 10.2 The Butterfly Effect; 10.3 Incompleteness of Determinism; 10.4 The Hard and the Soft of Determinism; 11 Probability and Possibility; 11.1 The Bayesians and the Frequentists; 11.2 Continuums, Again; 11.3 Impossibility and Improbability; 12 Final Thoughts; 12.1 Dualism; 12.2 Obstacles; 12.3 Autonomy and Intelligence; Bibliography; Index
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520 8 $a In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans.
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