The internet is not what you think it is [electronic resource] : a history, a philosophy, a warning

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서명/저자사항	The internet is not what you think it is [electronic resource]: a history, a philosophy, a warning / Justin E. H. Smith.
개인저자	Smith, Justin E. H., author.
발행사항	Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022
형태사항	1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations
ISBN	9780691229683 0691229686 9780691212326 0691212325
기타표준부호	10.1515/9780691229683doi
서지주기	Includes bibliographic references and index.
내용주기	Introduction. "Let us calculate!" -- 1. A sudden acceleration -- 2. The ecology of the internet -- 3. The reckoning engine and the thinking machine -- 4. "How closely woven the web" : the internet -- 5. A window on the world -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Index.
요약	"An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died today. Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern world--uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet's continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology. Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the "internet" has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet's organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature. Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades." --
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Internet --History. Artificial intelligence --History. Technology --Social aspects. Technology and civilization. Internet --Histoire. Intelligence artificielle --Histoire. Technologie et civilisation. Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Artificial intelligence. Internet. Technology and civilization. Technology --Social aspects.
분류기호(DDC)	004.67809
언어	영어
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