| 000 | 06925cam a2200469 i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 005 | 20211103142018.0 | ||
| 008 | 951127s1995 cau b 001 0beng d | ||
| 010 | _a 96133379 | ||
| 011 | _aBIB MATCHES WORLDCAT | ||
| 020 | _a1565920856 | ||
| 020 | _a9781565920859 | ||
| 035 | _a(ATU)b10318471 | ||
| 035 | _a(OCoLC)32733352 | ||
| 040 |
_aCVtB _beng _erda _cBGC _dDLC _dBAKER _dUKV3G _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dAU@ _dATU |
||
| 042 | _alccopycat | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 |
_aQA76.9.C66 _bT26 1995 |
| 082 | 0 | 0 |
_a303.4834 _220 |
| 100 | 1 |
_aTalbott, Steve, _eauthor. _9239034 |
|
| 245 | 1 | 4 |
_aThe future does not compute : _btranscending the machines in our midst / _cStephen L. Talbott. |
| 250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 |
_aSebastopol, CA : _bO'Reilly & Associates, _c[1995] |
|
| 264 | 4 | _c©1995 | |
| 300 |
_axix, 481 pages ; _c24 cm |
||
| 336 |
_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
||
| 337 |
_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
||
| 338 |
_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier |
||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 449-455) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 |
_tForeword -- _tAcknowledgments -- _g1. _tCan Human Ideals Survive the Internet? -- _g2. _tThe Machine in the Ghost -- _g3. _tThe Future Does Not Compute -- _g4. _tSettlers in Cyberspace -- _g5. _tOn Being Responsible for Earth -- _g6. _tNetworks and Communities -- _g7. _tAt the Fringe of Freedom -- _g8. _tThings That Run by Themselves -- _g9. _tDo We Really Want a Global Village? -- _g10. _tThoughts on a Group Support System -- _g11. _tIn Summary -- _g12. _tNet-based Learning Communities -- _g13. _tImpressing the Science out of Children -- _g14. _tChildren of the Machine -- _g15. _tDancing with My Computer -- _g16. _tThe Tyranny of the Detached Word -- _g17. _tThe Great Information Hunt -- _g18. _tAnd the Word Became Mechanical -- _g19. _tListening for the Silence -- _g20. _tAwaking from the Primordial Dream -- _g21. _tMona Lisa's Smile -- _g22. _tSeeing in Perspective -- _g23. _tCan We Transcend Computation? -- _g24. _tElectronic Mysticism -- _g25. _tWhat This Book Was About -- _tAppendix A: Owen Barfield: The Evolution of Consciousness -- _tAppendix B: From Virtual to Real -- _tAppendix C: Education Without Computers -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex. |
| 520 | _a"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. | ||
| 588 | _aMachine converted from AACR2 source record. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aBarfield, Owen, _d1898-1997 _9399045 |
| 650 | 0 |
_aComputers and civilization _9315925 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aComputers _xSocial aspects _9370950 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aComputers _xPsychological aspects _9373116 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aInternet _xSocial aspects. _9371059 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aInformation technology _xSocial aspects. _9370546 |
|
| 856 | 4 | 2 |
_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0915/96133379-b.html |
| 907 |
_a.b10318471 _b10-06-19 _c27-10-15 |
||
| 998 |
_a(3)b _a(3)c _b06-04-16 _cm _da _feng _gcau _h4 |
||
| 945 |
_a303.4834 TAL _g1 _iA269345B _j0 _lcmain _o- _p$58.53 _q- _r- _s- _t0 _u2 _v1 _w1 _x0 _y.i1071912x _z28-10-15 |
||
| 942 | _cB | ||
| 999 |
_c1117040 _d1117040 |
||