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Plato and the Nerd - The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology (Paperback)
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Plato and the Nerd - The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology (Paperback)
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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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