The Coevolution
The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
21 April 2020
Summary
Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as the result of a Darwinian coevolution than the result of top-down intelligent design. Richard Dawkins famously…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043939 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262043939 |
| Author: | Edward Ashford Lee |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 21 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 702g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Edward Ashford Lee
Edward Ashford Lee is Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he runs iCyPhy, a research center focused on industrial cyber-physical systems. He is the author of Plato and the Nerd (MIT Press) and other books.
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