- Taschenbuch: 267 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of California Pr; Auflage: 0002 (Februar 1994)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0520085841
- ISBN-13: 978-0520085848
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 13,7 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 656.004 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The title notwithstanding, Theodore Roszak is no computer hater. But in an age that idolizes intelligent machines, he stands out as a rare cautionary voice. His book makes an eloquent case for a simple thesis: digital computing, far from being a panacea, has created as many problems as it solves. For Roszak, a fair measure of the fault lies with corporate hucksterism, a credulous educational establishment, and government's desire to control information. But the deeper worry is our own utopian techno-idealism--the belief that a scientific broom can sweep away our messy problems. The author challenges such computer messianism with a detailed, common-sense look at the history of what computing has actually brought us. The trends he sees--the conflation of data with knowledge, the erosion of human-centered values, and the rise of a digital oligarchy at just about everyone else's expense--are tough to deny. If you love computers, The Cult of Information is a provocative read, but one you shouldn't dodge.
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This book is a thoughtful and thought-provoking examination of both the meaning of and the consequences associated with the rising computer information cult within contemporary society. Roszak is a skilled writer and an even more perceptive thinker. He quickly disposes of the contemporary idea equating data or information, on the one hand, with knowledge and wisdom, on the other hand. He despairs of the notion that technological progress is an unalloyed blessing, and provides a lot of supporting documentation illustrating that for all those capabilities we gain through the use of digital technology, for example, we also lose important capabilities and perspectives.
According to Roszak, we have now come to almost rely on exclusively rational,"logical", and quantifiable methods of understanding everything around us, often to the detriment of ignoring more traditional and time-honored methods of knowing. This, in turn, leads to a very narrow perspective of how it is that the world operates, one devoid of anything not quantitative, anything comprised of more "qualitative" means of observation. Thus, to the digitally oriented logical and rational mind, anything not disposed to undertanding through calculation and the scientific method simply is not real. Furthermore, he shows us, such digital computing techniques creates as many problems as it solves.
He fears for good reason that we are falling into a hyperbolized and superficial culture where we have come to completely depend on scientific rationalism as it is depicted by the media, and that this creates a conundrum we cannot escape from, since many of the problems associated with modern society stem from this increasingly exlusively scientific and rational approach toward problem-solving.
As with other contemporary critics of the new Digital Intelligence cult like social critic Neil Postman, Roszak argues for a more comprehensive perspective , one that places the tools of computer technology at the behest of a more broad-based intelligence, one that recognizes that there is a whole range of ways of knowing and understanding that those contained in programming code. This is a provocative and thought-indicing book. I enjoyed and learned from it, and recommend it to anyone who enjoys watching a superior intellect at work, and who also appreciated the thread of a finely-hewn intellectual argument. Enjoy!
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Mr. Roszak does a fine job in this book of showing the problems with the cult of information/computers. He points out the many fine things they do and how those are ignored in favor of the hyperbole favored by the computer fanatics. He has obviously studied the topic in depth and shows all the flawed projections, assumptions and ideas of the Minskys of the world. His book is especially useful at refuting claims about AI and showing where abuses can occur with the system. His questioning about the use of computers in schools is very relevant and very well thought-out. His history of the computer itself is also interesting, something rarely covered in other sources. The only complaint I had with the book was that it is fairly dated - he did little revision of the 1986 edition and there are points where this is obvious. His point though is as relevant as it was when the book first arrived 22 years ago and very few of his ideas have been proven wrong - on the other hand the AI-hypers look sillier and sillier. Definitely worth reading.
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I enjoyed the book and welcomed the thoughts of the author concerning the limitations and dangers of allowing the computer to become the important locater of "knowledge". Unfortunately, one of our main concerns today is that many people don't know how to think, or don't like to think and prefer to believe they are thinking. Maybe computer data will be likened to "it must be true fact because it was in Reader's Digest". This book should be included in computer courses to allow each mind to dwell on "thoughts" and recognize them. A quote I loved, "Human memory is the self portrait we paint from all we have experienced".
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Roszak is as imprisoned by semantics as ever
The fellow who coined the phrase "secular humanism" is not about to embrace the full nature of the internet. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juli 1998 von M. Clark
Roszak's book as a treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
As a sociologist and as a fervent supporter of the "true art of thinking", the text fast became for me a sign that today's 'thinkers' are not allowing the information... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Oktober 1997 veröffentlicht
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