No Safety in Numbers-How the Computer Quantified Everything and Made People Risk-Av

Perkinson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

1996
Hampton Press (Verlag)
978-1-57273-062-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This work addresses the social and cultural aspects of computing. Its perspective is that computers encode the world mathematically and statistically, and that this knowledge has resulted in an increased awareness of risks in all sectors of social life, making people avoid risk.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.1996
• Zusatzinfo: indexes
• Verlagsort: Cresskill
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 333 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-57273-062-5 / 1572730625
• ISBN-13: 978-1-57273-062-5 / 9781572730625
• Zustand: Neuware