The Fourth Discontinuity

The Fourth Discontinuity
Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780300065121

Discusses the relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical and of computer robots being programmed to think. He describes early Greek and Chinese automatons and discusses ideas of previous centuries and of individuals on this subject.

The Quark and the Jaguar

The Quark and the Jaguar
Author: Murray Gell-Mann
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1995-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780805072532

This book provides an explanation of the connections between nature at its most basic level and natural selection, archaeology, linguistics, child development, computers and other complex adaptive systems.