Plato and the Nerd
How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.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 bu...
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| description | How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.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. Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of—for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation—that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data. Lee argues that the evidence for this is weak, and the likelihood that nature has limited itself to processes that conform to today's notion of digital computation is remote.Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1466372024-10-25T13:13:56Z Plato and the Nerd Lee, Edward Ashford engineering systems AI algorithm Aristotle artificial intelligence Bekenstein Bell Labs Berners-Lee Bohr Boltzmann Boyle's law Cantor Charles' law cloud computing Turing compiler computable concrete model continuous entropy cryptography cyber-physical system describable digital chaos digital machine digital physics Edsger Dijkstra effectively computable Einstein emergent phenomena encryption Facebook falsifiability Go¨ del Golomb Google Stephen Hawking Heisenberg Kuhn machine learning open source operating system Penrose Popper positivist probability programming language quantum computing quantum mechanics relativity Searle self-driving car self-reference semantics Serres Silicon Valley Turing machine von Neumann thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBR Intermediate technology thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBY Inventions and inventors thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.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. Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of—for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation—that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data. Lee argues that the evidence for this is weak, and the likelihood that nature has limited itself to processes that conform to today's notion of digital computation is remote.Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition. 2024-10-25T13:13:54Z 2024-10-25T13:13:54Z 2017 book ONIX_20241025_9780262341202_15 9780262341202 9780262036481 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146637 eng The MIT Press image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11180.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/11180.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/11180.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262341202 9780262036481 The MIT Press 288 Cambridge open access |
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