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Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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Thirty years ago, when I joined the faculty at MIT to study computer culture, the world re- tained a certain innocence. Children played tic-tac-toe with their electronic toys, video game missiles took on invading asteroids, and “intelligent” programs could hold up their end of a serious chess match. The first home computers were being bought by people called hobby- ists. The people who bought or built them experimented with programming, often making their own simple games. No one knew to what further uses home computers might be put. The in- tellectual buzz in the still-young field of artificial intelligence was over programs that could re- cognize simple shapes and manipulate blocks. AI scientists debated whether machines of the future would have their smarts programmed into them or whether intelligence might emerge from simple instructions written into machine hardware, just as neurobiologists currently ima- gine that intelligence and reflective self-consciousness emerge from the relatively simple ar- chitecture and activity of the human brain

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Alone Together - Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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: ., 2008

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1-370

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English

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1st Edtion

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Communication

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