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'A towering milestone in the history of attempts to understand the significance of computers' - Datamation
Computer Power and Human Reason has fired enormous controversy and acclaim in America. Here Joseph Weizenbaum, one of the world's top computer scientists, provides us with an insider's critique of computers: what they can already do, what they cannot do and, most controversially, what they should not be used to do. Should we, for example, be working towards the use of computers as substitutes for doctors or psychotherapists?
Brilliantly and passionately argued, Professor Weizenbaum's book is unique in combining scientific and humanistic approaches to the many vital questions surrounding computers. It should be read by programmers, scientists and academics as well as by everyone interested in or concerned about the impact of today's technology on society, ourselves and our future world.
'Insight, expertise, anecdote and passion... it will stand for a long time as a definitive integration of technological and humanistic thought' - American Mathematical Monthly
'Superb. The work of a man who is struggling with the utmost seriousness to save our humanity from the reductionist onslaught of one of the most prestigious, active and richly funded technologies of our time' Theodore Roszak in the Nation.
ISBN: 9780140225358
ISBN: 9780140225358
