ISBN:
9783030343620
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (126 pages)
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DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Technological innovations-Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Introduction: Why Listen to Me? Why You Should Take Seriously Your Own Knowledge of Computers -- Contents -- Chapter 1: What Is Computing? -- Chapter 2: How Did We Get Here? -- How Humans Invented Computers -- It Took Money and Organizations to Make IT Possible -- Computers Were Put to Good Use -- IT Was First and Foremost All About Creating and Using Information -- How Computers Spread Around the World So Quickly -- Reflections on What Happened -- Chapter 3: Early Views of Computing -- Early Reactions to Computers -- How Corporations Responded -- Sensors and the Hard Sciences Join Forces -- Society Debated the Role of Computers -- Management's Evolving Views -- Work Changed Because of Computers -- Some Lessons to Consider -- Chapter 4: How People View Computing Today -- What the Public Thinks in "Emerging" Economies -- What IT Gurus Think -- What Business and Government Leaders Think -- Making Sense of the Wizards -- Is There More to This Story? -- Chapter 5: How We Might See the End of the Information Age -- The Concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- The Case That We Live in the Information Age -- The Case That We Do Not Live in the Information Age -- Why the Issue Is Important -- Emerging Types of AI Tools -- So, Does This Mean We Might See the End of the Information Age? -- Chapter 6: Life in a Post-information Age Era? -- What Makes Emerging AI a Controlling Force -- Limits and Problems of AI as Shaping Forces -- Putting Information Back into Its Historic Place -- Why Humans Cannot Soon Become Cyborgs -- Biological Computers? -- What Does God Think About Computers? -- Chapter 7: Is It the End of Our World? How to Think About Implications and Challenges -- Forecasting, Hype, and Evolution -- Terms in Turmoil: Revolutions, Revolutionary, and Evolutions -- Thinking in an Evolutionary Way -- What Do We Want?.
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