What Algorithms Want
Imagination in the Age of Computing
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations—the marriage vow, the shaman's curse—do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In this book, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm—in practical terms, a method f…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-33884-4
- EAN: 9780262338844
- Produktnummer: 27873009
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'300 KB
- Abbildungen: 17 B&W ILLUS.
Über den Autor
Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is also Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering and the Department of English.
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