IN DATA TIME AND TIDE
A surprising philosophical Guide to our programmable Future
Genre:
Philosophy, Technology
Author:
Cosimo Accoto
Publisher:
Egea/Bocconi UP
Language:
English
AUTHOR BIO:
Cosimo Accoto is a digital philosopher, research affiliate and fellow at MIT in Boston, startup advisor and instructor. He also served as Commercial Director at Memis, Head of Business Development at Jupiter Media Metrix, Sales & Service Account at Agb Italy, and as a Lecturer in Digital Analytics & Big Data at IE University in Madrid. He is the author of several books including Il Mondo data (2017) and Il Mondo ex machina (2019), both forming, along with In Data Time and Tide an ideal trilogy o...
Pages:
156
Publication:
2018
Rights available:
Albanian, Arab, Chinese, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Uzbeck
DESCRIPTION:
A fresh philosophical journey through our programmable world. A visionary map exploring risky and wild territories: the hidden life of software and coding, the emergence of a new data sensorium, the algorithmic power of alien intelligences, the tech shift from archives to prediction machines, the planetary platforms becoming stacks and chains.
In five short and provocative essays, this book popularizes new speculations introducing society and business to untold concepts such as feedforward, stack, transduction, elemental, infoviduality. Together with engineer’s and programmer’s narratives of code, data and algos revolution, philosophers have their own creative thinking on current and future technologies. An intriguing philtech guide to our (generative yet vulnerable) digital, artificial and synthetic age.
An engaging book for business disruptors, social innovators, policymakers and educators.
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