The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World―and Shapes Our Future - Hardcover

Arbesman, Samuel

 
9781541704480: The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World―and Shapes Our Future

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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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.
 

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