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Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. He shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control. | Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. He shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control. | ||
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== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Life_in_Code_and_Software/Software_Ecologies '''Software Ecologies'''] == | |||
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Revision as of 17:54, 28 February 2012
Mediated life in a complex computational ecology
ISBN: 978-1-60785-XXX-X
edited by David Berry
Introduction: What is code and software?
This book explores the relationship between living and code and software. It does so because these technologies are increasingly part of our urban environment, and indeed stretching even to very remote areas of the world. The book introduces and explores the way in which code and software become the conditions of possibility for human living, crucially becoming a computational ecology which we inhabit. As such we need to take account of this new computational world and think about how we live today in a highly mediated code-based world.(more...)
Thinking Software
Turing Machine explanation by Wolfram Alpha
Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. He shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.
Code Literacy ('iteracy')
Decoding Code
Software Ecologies