Modern Machinery and Its Influence on Human Beings
Like so many products of technology—consider the automobile or the Walkman used by teenagers—television can isolate people even within the...
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The dream of immortality
In 1726, Jonathan Swift, an irreverent critic of modern science, published a satire on humanity’s fear of death and its...
Man and the machine
Humanity’s mistrust of machines—or rather, the mistrust felt by only part of humanity—is nothing new. History is full of examples....
From Gutenberg to IBM
The role played by technology in the Renaissance is well known. One curious example was the influence of the invention...
Stibitz and the complex number calculator
A colleague of Shannon’s, the American George Stibitz, also entered the design of components for computers. Later, he understood that...
