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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Simulation and its discontents. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009 (DLC) 2008035982 (OCoLC)243941679 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sherry Turkle; et al |
| ISBN: | 9780262254847 0262254840 9780262012706 0262012707 |
| OCLC Number: | 405039203 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 217 p.) |
| Contents: | Simulation and its discontents / Sherry Turkle -- What does simulation want? -- The view from the 1980s -- design and science at the millennium -- New ways of knowing/New ways of forgetting -- Sites of simulation: case studies -- Outer space and undersea -- Becoming a rover / William J. Clancey Intimate sensing / Stefan Helmreich -- Buildings and biology -- Performing the protein fold / Natasha Myers. |
| Series Title: | Simplicity (Cambridge, Mass.) |
| Responsibility: | Sherry Turkle ; with additional essays by William J. Clancey ... [et al.]. |
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"In the 2008 economic meltdown, opaque computer systems had a role to play, making it hard for people to understand the levels of risk they were holding. Markets could be simulated, and simulations nicely showed what potential disaster looked like; but they couldn't say anything about whose specific actions threatened trouble for whom. That's not the kind of financial world investors were used to living in. Turkle's book reminds us that, in science as in everyday life, technological change often slips past us and transforms our sense of what we're doing and why we're doing it without our remembering to notice. As she's done so often before, Turkle remembered on our behalf." --Don Ross, School of Economics, University of Cape Town and Department of Finance, Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Alabama at Birmingham "As computer simulation techniques have been transforming the practices of designers, engineers, and scientists, Sherry Turkle and her collaborators have been operating, at close quarters and over an extended period, as ethnographers among the simulators. This long-awaited volume presents their observations and reflections. It is an indispensable source of insights into the changing nature of learning, research, and expert practice in the digital era." --William J. Mitchell, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT and author of World's Greatest Architect "I'll follow the wise eyes of Sherry Turkle anywhere she looks. Here she scrutinizes how we actually use simulations and then tells us what it means. She sees everything from all three sides." --Kevin Kelley, Senior Maverick for Wired and author of The Technium Read more...
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