OUR COMPUTATIONAL CULTURE: FROM DESCARTES TO THE COMPUTER.

The article discusses the impact of the power of computer on the culture of people. Topics include the desire of humans for a faster method of calculating that eventually transformed in a computational culture, a discussion on the primary oral cultures where visual values are repressed by auditory a...

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Published in:ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 184 - 201
Main Author: BERG, R. DREYER
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Published: Institute of General Semantics, Inc. Apr2014
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