The seminal pieces by Bush, Licklider, and Nelson seem to continue expounding upon the question that Turing and Wiener were interested in: just how do humans think and what does that mean for the design and use of technology?
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Thoughts on McLuhan
After reading Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium Is the Message” for what seems like the google-first time, I’m thinking about his definitions of “medium” and “message.” The former he defines as “any extension of ourselves” and the latter as any medium or technology that changes the “scale or practice or pattern” of human affairs (Wardrip-Fruin 203). [...]
The Automation of the Robot
Jean Baudrilliard A whole world separates these two artificial beings. One is a theatrical counterfeit, a mechanical and clocklike man; technique submits entirely to analogy and to the effect of semblance. The other is dominated by the technical principle; the machine overrides all, and with the machine equivalence comes too. The automaton plays the part [...]