Turkle, Sherry.

Simulation and Its Discontents. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (232 pages) - Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Series . - Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Simulation and Its Discontents -- What Does Simulation Want? -- The View From the 1980s -- Design and Science at the Millennium -- New Ways of Knowing/New Ways of Forgetting -- Notes -- Sites of Simulation: Case Studies -- Outer Space and Undersea -- Becoming a Rover -- Intimate Sensing -- Buildings and Biology -- Keepers of the Geometry -- Performing the Protein Fold -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index.

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

9780262254847


Computer simulation.
Technology-History.
Technology-Social aspects.
Visualization.


Electronic books.

QA76.9.C65T87 2009

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