The code economy : a forty-thousand-year history /
The "code economy" refers to the evolving technologically-driven environment we live in. In services or manufacturing, outputs emerge more and more from coded computerized systems and less as assembled mechanical devices and procedures. Industries seek algorithms to make software not only...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Technology = Recipes
- Part One: The Advance of Code. Jobs : Divide and Coordinate ; Code : "This is the Procedure" ; Machines : "The Universal Character" ; Computers : Predicting the Weather
- Part Two: Code Economics. Substitution : The Great Man-vs-Machine Debate ; Information : "Reliable Circuits Using Crummy Relays" ; Learning : The Dividend of Doing ; Evolution : The Code of Life ; Platforms : The Role of Standards in Enabling Increased Complexity
- Part three: The Human Advantage. Complementarity : The Bifurcation Is Near ; Education : The Game of Life ; Equity : Progress and Poverty ; Authenticity : Creating the Foundation for Reputation ; Purpose : The Promised Sand
- Conclusion: Identity : A Copernican Moment.