Plato and the nerd: the creative partnership between humans and technology
In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformati…
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- Full title :Plato and the nerd : the creative partnership between humans and technology / Edward Ashford Lee.
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In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans.
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- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 266 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262036481, 0262036487, 9780262536424, 0262536420
- oclc:on1013519092
- LC Classification:T14
- Dewey Decimal:601
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