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A Network Orange

Logic and Responsibility in the Computer Age

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Richard Crandall
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  2. Marvin Levich
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  • Discusses the emergence of computers as an elemental force in our modern society.
  • Written by a powerful tandem of a scientist and philosopherwe see a balanced viewpoint of the issues addressed.
  • This thoughtful analysis provides readers with a much better understanding of the limitations of new technologies, along with propositions for better use and implementation of them within a cultural context.

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. A Conspiracy of Parts

    • Richard Crandall, Marvin Levich
    Pages 1-22

  3. Toward a Theory of Machine Consciousness

    • Richard Crandall, Marvin Levich
    Pages 23-42

  4. Multimedia: Mélange Obscure

    • Richard Crandall, Marvin Levich
    Pages 43-61

  5. A Network Orange

    • Richard Crandall, Marvin Levich
    Pages 63-83

  6. Virtual Reality, And All That

    • Richard Crandall, Marvin Levich
    Pages 85-107

  7. Education Be Not Automatic

    • Richard Crandall, Marvin Levich
    Pages 109-123

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 125-130
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Computer technology has become a mirror of what we are and a screen on which we project both our hopes and our fears for the way the world is changing. Earlier in this century, particularly in the post-World War II era of unprecedented growth and prosperity, the social contract between citi­ zens and scientists/engineers was epitomized by the line Ronald Reagan promoted as spokesman for General Electric: "Progress is our most impor­ tant product. " In more recent decades, post-Chernobyl, post-Challenger, post-Bhopal, post-Microsoft, the social contract has undergone a transfor­ mation. More people are uncertain, fearful, and downright opposed to the notion that more technology guarantees a better life. What is a "better life"? Who benefits and who loses when new technologies change the way we live, work, learn, and play? Who has a say in the way technologies are designed and deployed? Where are we going, are we sure we want to go there, and who has the power to do anything about itt From the early days of the railroads, into the era of electrification, through the McLuhan age, much of the discourse about technology has been hype, utopianism, and what some historians have called "the rhetoric of the technological sublime. " We have discovered, however, that not all people benefit economically or politically from technological change.

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