A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture

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A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture is written by Sheldon Richmond and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527549224 (ISBN 10) and 9781527549227 (ISBN 13).

Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate both ordinary users and computer technologists. Why are people frustrated by smart machines? Computers don’t fit people. People think in terms of comparisons, stories, and analogies, and seek feedback, whereas computers are based on a fundamental design that does not fit with analogical and feedback thinking. They impose a binary, an all-or-nothing, approach to everything. Moreover, the social world and institutions that have developed around computer technology hide and reinforce the lack of alignment between computers and people. This book suggests a solution: we do not have to accept the way things are now and work around the bad social and technical design of computers. Rather, it proposes a diverse, distributed, critical discussion of how to design and build both computer technology and its social institutions.