Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution
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Издатель | | Prentice Hall Ptr |
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Содержание:
Общедоступная история астрономии в XIX столетии
Описание:
The world is changing. We are in the midst of a profound transformation of our society. Matthew Friedman looks at what has happened so far and sends us reports from the trenches. With these insightful (and sometimes quirky) essays Friedman provides us with a passport to the new technologies that brought data processing power once restricted to governments and corporations to the desktops of the general public. According to Friedman the down side of the information revolution is corporate control and the concentration of information-the trend towards the commodification of information rather than having it as an open public resource. Some of the topics in Fuzzy Logic ... hate propaganda on the Net the machine as fetish cyber warfare-Zapatistas on the Net sex and censorship the death of television news the future of the newspaper the globalization of the information revolution and its impact on culture the regulation debate (or metapolitics of the net) virtual space and virtual...Похожие книги
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