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Bootstrapping - Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Hardcover, illustrated edition) Loot Price: R2,020
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Bootstrapping - Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Thierry Bardini

Series: Writing Science

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"Bootstrapping" analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking work of one researcher, Douglas Engelbart. In his lab at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s, Engelbart, along with a small team of researchers, developed some of the cornerstones of personal computing as we know it, including the mouse, the windowed user interface, and hypertext. Today, all these technologies are well known, even taken for granted, but the assumptions and motivations behind their invention are not. "Bootstrapping" establishes Douglas Engelbart's contribution through a detailed history of both the material and the symbolic constitution of his system's human-computer interface in the context of the computer research community in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.
Engelbart felt that the complexity of many of the world's problems was becoming overwhelming, and the time for solving these problems was becoming shorter and shorter. What was needed, he determined, was a system that would augment human intelligence, co-transforming or co-evolving both humans and the machines they use. He sought a systematic way to think and organize this coevolution in an effort to discover a path on which a radical technological improvement could lead to a radical improvement in how to make people work effectively. What was involved in Engelbart's project was not just the invention of a computerized system that would enable humans, acting together, to manage complexity, but the invention of a new kind of human, "the user." What he ultimately envisioned was a "bootstrapping" process by which those who actually invented the hardware and software of this new system would simultaneously reinvent the human in a new form.
The book also offers a careful narrative of the collapse of Engelbart's laboratory at Stanford Research Institute, and the further translation of Engelbart's vision. It shows that Engelbart's ultimate goal of coevolution came to be translated in terms of technological progress and human adaptation to supposedly user-friendly technologies. At a time of the massive diffusion of the World Wide Web, "Bootstrapping" recalls the early experiments and original ideals that led to today's "information revolution."

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Writing Science
Release date: December 2000
First published: 2000
Authors: Thierry Bardini
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages: 312
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3723-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Impact of computing & IT on society
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > Personal computers > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
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LSN: 0-8047-3723-1
Barcode: 9780804737234

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