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After Thought: The Computer Challenge To Human Intelligence Paperback - 1997
by James Bailey
- Used
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- Paperback
In the tradition of GODEL, ESCHER, BACH comes a profound and original book that looks at computers and shows the potential of these astounding machines to reshape what we think about and even how we think. Ranging widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Darwin and beyond, AFTER THOUGHT will astonish and fascinate all of us who much come to terms with today's unstoppable computer revolution.
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- Title After Thought: The Computer Challenge To Human Intelligence
- Author James Bailey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # G-702-032
- ISBN 9780465007820 / 0465007821
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.72 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 1.83 cm)
- Reading level 1360
- Category Science
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96001050
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.48
- Quantity available 1
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