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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BuySomeBooks.
University of Minnesota Press. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. 448 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.1in. x 1.6in.The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the limitations of both science and humanity. In Summa Technologiaehis major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first timeLem produced an engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms. After five decades Summa Technologiae has lost none of its intellectual or critical significance. Indeed, many of Lems conjectures about future technologies have now come true: from artificial intelligence, bionics, and nanotechnology to the dangers of information overload, the concept underlying Internet search engines, and the idea of virtual reality. More important for its continued relevance, however, is Lems rigorous investigation into the parallel development of biological and technical evolution and his conclusion that technology will outlive humanity. Preceding Richard Dawkinss understanding of evolution as a blind watchmaker by more than two decades, Lem posits evolution as opportunistic, shortsighted, extravagant, and illogical. Strikingly original and still timely, Summa Technologiae resonates with a wide range of contemporary debates about information and new media, the life sciences, and the emerging relationship between technology and humanity. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.

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The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the limitations of both science and humanity. In Summa Technologiae?his major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first time?Lem produced an engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms. After five decades Summa Technologiae has lost none of its intellectual or critical significance. Indeed, many of Lem?s conjectures about future technologies have now come true: from artificial intelligence, bionics, and nanotechnology to the dangers of information overload, the concept underlying Internet search engines, and the idea of virtual reality. More important for its continued relevance, however, is Lem?s rigorous investigation into the parallel development of biological and technical evolution and his conclusion that technology will outlive humanity. Preceding Richard Dawkins?s understanding of evolution as a blind watchmaker by more than two decades, Lem posits evolution as opportunistic, shortsighted, extravagant, and illogical. Strikingly original and still timely, Summa Technologiae resonates with a wide range of contemporary debates about information and new media, the life sciences, and the emerging relationship between technology and humanity.

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Hoy ya no es necesario esperar nietos para que alguien se ría de tales profecías ingenuas, cada quien puede divertirse solo dejando en un cajón durante unos años aquello que hoy se describe como cuadro fiel del mañana. La tecnología que facilita la vida se convierte en la herramienta de su empobrecimiento, puesto que por los medios masivos de información pasa de ser una obediente multiplicadora de bienes espirituales a una productora de baratijas culturales. Ninguna religión puede hacer nada por la humanidad, dado que no es un saber empírico. Disminuye, por cierto, el "dolor de vivir" de los individuos, pero al mismo tiempo aumenta la suma de desgracias que aquejan a la totalidad, precisamente por su impotencia e inacción frente a los problemas del colectivo. Así pues, no es posible defenderla ni siquiera desde un punto de vista pragmático como una herramienta útil, porque es una herramienta mala, que es impotente ante los temas clave del mundo. Stanislaw Lem.

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The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the limitations of both science and humanity. In Summa Technologiae—his major work of nonfiction, first publish... The Polish writer Stanislaw Lem is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the 1961 science fiction novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and remade in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh. Throughout his writings, comprising dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, Lem offered deeply philosophical and bitingly satirical reflections on the limitations of both science and humanity. In Summa Technologiae—his major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first time—Lem produced an engaging and caustically logical philosophical treatise about human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms. After five decades Summa Technologiae has lost none of its intellectual or critical significance. Indeed, many of Lem’s conjectures about future technologies have now come true: from artificial intelligence, bionics, and nanotechnology to the dangers of information overload, the concept underlying Internet search engines, and the idea of virtual reality. More important for its continued relevance, however, is Lem’s rigorous investigation into the parallel development of biological and technical evolution and his conclusion that technology will outlive humanity. Preceding Richard Dawkins’s understanding of evolution as a blind watchmaker by more than two decades, Lem posits evolution as opportunistic, shortsighted, extravagant, and illogical. Strikingly original and still timely, Summa Technologiae resonates with a wide range of contemporary debates about information and new media, the life sciences, and the emerging relationship between technology and humanity.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 32x229x152 mm;Gewicht: 735,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: maart 2013;Druk: 1;ISBN10: 0816675767;ISBN13: 9780816675760; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2013.

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University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Book. New. Paperback. New and in stock.

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Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. SKU: MM-21526338; EAN: 9780816675777.

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