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eng |
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T26 1995 |
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303.4834 |
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20 |
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Talbott, Steve, |
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| Title |
The future does not compute : |
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transcending the machines in our midst / |
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Stephen L. Talbott. |
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First edition. |
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Sebastopol, CA : |
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O'Reilly & Associates, |
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[1995] |
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©1995 |
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xix, 481 pages ; |
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24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-455) and index. |
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| Title |
Foreword -- |
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Acknowledgments -- |
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1. |
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Can Human Ideals Survive the Internet? -- |
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2. |
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The Machine in the Ghost -- |
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3. |
| Title |
The Future Does Not Compute -- |
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4. |
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Settlers in Cyberspace -- |
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5. |
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On Being Responsible for Earth -- |
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6. |
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Networks and Communities -- |
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7. |
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At the Fringe of Freedom -- |
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8. |
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Things That Run by Themselves -- |
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9. |
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Do We Really Want a Global Village? -- |
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10. |
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Thoughts on a Group Support System -- |
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11. |
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In Summary -- |
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12. |
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Net-based Learning Communities -- |
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13. |
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Impressing the Science out of Children -- |
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14. |
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Children of the Machine -- |
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15. |
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Dancing with My Computer -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
16. |
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The Tyranny of the Detached Word -- |
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17. |
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The Great Information Hunt -- |
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18. |
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And the Word Became Mechanical -- |
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19. |
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Listening for the Silence -- |
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20. |
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Awaking from the Primordial Dream -- |
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21. |
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Mona Lisa's Smile -- |
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22. |
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Seeing in Perspective -- |
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23. |
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Can We Transcend Computation? -- |
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24. |
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Electronic Mysticism -- |
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25. |
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What This Book Was About -- |
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Appendix A: Owen Barfield: The Evolution of Consciousness -- |
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Appendix B: From Virtual to Real -- |
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Appendix C: Education Without Computers -- |
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Bibliography -- |
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Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Many pundits tell you that the computer is ushering us toward a new Golden Age of Information. A few tell you that the computer is destroying everything worthwhile in our culture. But almost no one tells you what Stephen L. Talbott shows in this surprising book: the intelligent machine gathers its menacing powers from hidden places within you and me. It does so, that is, as long as we gaze into our screens and tap on our keyboards while less than fully conscious of the subtle influences passing through the interface.Talbott awakens us to these influences by conducting a wide-ranging tour: Why do we hail the birth of the electronic global village just as villagers around the world are killing each other? Is the Net an instrument for social dissolution?Do the Renaissance origins of virtual reality throw light on our world-creating and world-destroying choices today? Does reality have a future?Were the barriers to creation of thinking machines clarified by a little-known philologist investigating the mythic consciousness of the ancients?Does the computer centralize or decentralize structures of power? Or does this question miss the point, because intelligent machines that run by themselves are creating a new global totalitarianism *without a despotic center*?Is the frantic urging to put schoolchildren on the Internet any more reasoned than the seventies' fad for programmed instruction, or the eighties' fad for computer literacy?Does an unrecognized law link the public face and the dark underside of the Net? If so, can we expect flame wars, weird impersonations, pornographic commerce, and Net psychoses to grow increasingly pronounced and erratic, while at the same time the reasonedmechanisms for filtering "strict business" from the chaos steadily gain in effectiveness?Is artificial intelligence raising machines to a human level, or are we descending to the machine's level?After reading "The Future Does Not Compute, you will never again be able to sit in front of your computer with quite the same glazed stare.(BACKCOVER COPY) The technological Djinn, now loosened from all restraints, tempts us with visions of a surreal future. It is a future with robots who surpass their masters in dexterity and wit; intelligent agents who roam the Net on our behalf, seeking the informational elixir that will make us whole; new communities inhabiting the clean, infinite reaches of cyberspace, freed from war and conflict; and lending libraries of "virtually real" experiences that seem more sensational than the real thing.Not all of this is idle or fantastic speculation -- even if it *is* the rather standard gush about our computerized future. Few observers can see any clear limits to what the networked computer might eventually accomplish. It is this stunning, wide-open potential that leads one to wonder what the Djinn will ask of us in return for the gift. After all, any potential so dramatic, so diverse, so *universal*, can be taken in many directions. That is its very nature. Who will choose the direction -- we, or the Djinn?The intelligent machine receives a shadow of our own intelligence. This shadow consists of all the collective, automatic, sleepwalking, deterministic processes we have yielded to. That is, it consists of our own willingness to become machines. The crucial question today is whether we can wake up in time. Only in wakefulness can we distinguishourselves from the automatisms around us. Where we remain asleep -- where we live in our own shadow -- we are the Djinn.The Net is the most powerful invitation to remain asleep we have ever faced. Contrary to the usual view, it dwarfs television in its power to induce passivity, to scatter our minds, to destroy our imaginations, and to make us forget our humanity.And yet -- for these very reasons -- the Net may also be an opportunity to enter into our fullest humanity with a self-awareness never yet achieved. But few even seem aware of the challenge, and without awareness we will certainly fail."--Publisher description. |
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1898-1997 |
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Internet |
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