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The Closed World

Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
Paul N. Edwards ,
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The Closed World is astonishing. One of the most important books of the 20th century.
Von Howard Rheingold, erfasst im Biblionetz am 15.06.2006

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The Closed WorldThe Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Integrating political, cultural, and technological history, it argues that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons. In this extended exploration of the relations of science and engineering to the evolution of modern society, Paul Edwards argues that what people have said, thought, and experienced through computers--as reflections of the nature of their minds; as solutions to political, commercial, and military problems; as icons of rationality--is as significant as anything computers have actually accomplished. Social and cultural context has shaped the growth of computer technology as much as it has been shaped by it.
Von Klappentext im Buch The Closed World (1996)
The Closed WorldThe way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past -- in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases -- shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this lively and erudite look at the relation of our information infrastructures to our information, Geoffrey Bowker examines how, over the past two hundred years, information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge. His story weaves a path between the social and political work of creating an explicit, indexical memory for science -- the making of infrastructures -- and the variety of ways we continually reconfigure, lose, and regain the past. At a time when memory is so cheap and its recording is so protean, Bowker reminds us of the centrality of what and how we choose to forget. In Memory Practices in the Sciences he looks at three "memory epochs" of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and their particular reconstructions and reconfigurations of scientific knowledge. The nineteenth century's central science, geology, mapped both the social and the natural world into a single time package (despite apparent discontinuities), as, in a different way, did mid-twentieth-century cybernetics. Both, Bowker argues, packaged time in ways indexed by their information technologies to permit traffic between the social and natural worlds. Today's sciences of biodiversity, meanwhile, "database the world" in a way that excludes certain spaces, entities, and times. We use the tools of the present to look at the past, says Bowker; we project onto nature our modes of organizing our own affairs.
Von Klappentext im Buch The Closed World (1996)

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Personen
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William Gibson, Ridley Scott

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Computer=Werkzeug

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2. Weltkrieg, Behaviorismusbehaviorism, Computercomputer, CyborgCyborg, Kognitivismuscognitivism, Kriegwar, Künstliche Intelligenz (KI / AI)artificial intelligence, Kybernetikcybernetics, Macy-Konferenzen, Militär, Neuronales Netzneural network, USA, Werkzeugetool
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Bücher
Jahr  Umschlag Titel Abrufe IBOBKBLB
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) 3000
1984   Neuromancer (William Gibson) 1, 6, 1, 10, 3, 99, 1, 5, 10, 3, 3, 722171630

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Intelligenz, Konstruktivismus

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The Closed World E Paperback - 1 1997 0262550288 Swissbib Worldcat Bestellen bei Amazon.de Buy it now! Bei Google Books anschauen

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