Bøger af Jacopo Pantaleoni

Since their invention, computers have kept revolutionizing the world at a staggering pace. And yet, if on one side this ongoing revolution keepsproviding an incessant stream of novel and previously unimaginabletechnologies, on the other, as with all revolutions, its profoundeffects threaten to upend much of the previous world order. Facing themany questions that this change is urgently raising will require toacquire a novel and interdisciplinary understanding of the powerfulforces that govern this process. Sitting squarely at the crossroads ofcomputer science, history, socioeconomics, ethics, and philosophy, andwritten by an insider who contributed foundational work to many of thelatest and most pervasive technologies this book offers a much-neededreframing of the past, present and future of computing, that goes farbeyond the typical chronological record of events and arms us with auniquely broad and integrated analysis of their complex origins andtheir numerous side effects.