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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817577703321

Titolo

Simulation and its discontents / / Sherry Turkle ; with additional essays by William J. Clancey ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : The MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

0-262-26154-5

1-282-24019-6

9786612240195

0-262-25484-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Simplicity

Altri autori (Persone)

TurkleSherry

Disciplina

003/.3

Soggetti

Computer simulation

Technology - History

Technology - Social aspects

Visualization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Simulation and its discontents / Sherry Turkle -- What does simulation want? -- ; The view from the 1980s -- design and science at the millennium -- New ways of knowing/New ways of forgetting -- Sites of simulation: case studies -- Outer space and undersea -- Becoming a rover / William J. Clancey Intimate sensing / Stefan Helmreich -- Buildings and biology -- Performing the protein fold / Natasha Myers.

Sommario/riassunto

How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.