Western Culture in the Computer Age

'''Bolter, J. David. Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age.''' Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 1984.

Introd. to the social implications of computer technology, written for a literate general audience. Premise: ". . . technology is as much a part of classical and Western culture as philosophy and science[,] and these 'high' and 'lowly' expressions of culture are closely related"; Plato and pottery, R. Descartes and mechanical clocks—similarly, "the computer as a technological paradigm for the science, the philosophy, even the art of the coming generation" (xii).