| Authors@Google:Harry Lewis & Hal Abelson |
 |
Wherever you go, whatever you say, write,
photograph, or buy, you are generating
information. That information can be
captured, digitized, retrieved, and
copied--anywhere on Earth, instantly.
Sophisticated computers can increasingly
uncover meaning in those digital
tracesunderstanding, anticipating, and
influencing you as never before. Is this
utopia? Or the dawning of a 1984/Brave New
World horror world? Whatever you call it,
it's happening. What kind of world are we
creating? What will it be like to live there?
Blown to Bits offers powerful and
controversial answers to these questions and
gives you the knowledge you need to help
shape your own digital future, not let others
do it for you. Building on their pioneering
joint MIT/Harvard course, the authors reveal
how the digital revolution is changing
everything, in ways that are stunning even
the most informed experts.
Hal Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
at MIT, and an IEEE Fellow. He has helped
drive innovative educational technology
initiatives such MIT OpenCourseWare,
cofounded Creative Commons and Public
Knowledge, and was founding director of the
Free Software Foundation. Harry Lewis, former
Dean of Harvard College, is Gordon McKay
Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. He
is author of Excellence Without a Soul: Does
Liberal Education Have a Future.
This event took place on June 25, 2008
License: CC-BY (2.5)
Tags : Hal Abelson Harry Lewis computer science digital revolution |
|
Affichage : 526
Durée : 3484 s |
|
|
|
|
|
