Samuel Arbesman

Gebundenes Buch

The Magic of Code

How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World--And Shapes Our Future

Beschreibung

A timely, witty, and mind-broadening exploration by a humanist-scientist into how technology dominates our lives, providing brilliant insight into how computation and "thinking in code" have shaped the human experience

Autor

Samuel Arbesman is Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital. In addition, he is an xLab senior fellow at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and  The Atlantic, and he was previously a contributing writer for Wired. His previous books are Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension and The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. He holds a PhD in computational biology from Cornell University and lives in Cleveland with his family. The first computer he used was a Commodore VIC-20.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublicAffairs, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781541704480
• ISBN-10: 1541704487
• Artikelnr.: 71926896