Book Review: The Future does not compute

Footnotes

(1)

You might argue that virtual reality makes up new output devices for computers. That's true - but even headsets contain a pair of screens - and computers connected to the visual nerves are science fiction.

(2)

"To someone who has only a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail." (p.30)

(3)

This phenomen is observed by other writers and artists too: click here to see a comic strip about students, papers and computers (source: 'The Maneater', student newspaper of University of Missouri-Columbia).

(4)

'Automatically' can be read with two meanings:

1. the causal connection of the 'information to wisdom' chain.
2. the 'algorithmic' nature of this thinking process which actually shows a certain influence of computers on human thinking.

Other Web-published reviews of 'The Future Does Not Compute':
• Kevin Hunt
• Harold Thimblelby
• Danny Yee
• MNJ2: The Multimedia Macintosh Internet Journal (in Spanish)