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The Cult of Information: Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-tech, Artificial Intelligence and the True Art of Thinking
 
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The Cult of Information: Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-tech, Artificial Intelligence and the True Art of Thinking (Paperback)

by T Roszak (Author)
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  • Paperback: 267 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; Rev Ed edition (13 May 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0520085841
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520085848
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.9 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the few sane voices commenting on technology, 30 Jan 2001
A very cogently argued and well researched commentary on the way we have accepted technology with hardly a whimper. There are some very useful jewels of insight here. I like the way he doesn't shun technology, but implicity asks the question: What does it mean to be human? The very future of our civilisation will hinge on how we collectively answer that question.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Highly informative and intelligently written, 6 Dec 1998
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Mr. Roszak does a fine job in this book of showing the problems with the cult of information/computers. He points out the many fine things they do and how those are ignored in favor of the hyperbole favored by the computer fanatics. He has obviously studied the topic in depth and shows all the flawed projections, assumptions and ideas of the Minskys of the world. His book is especially useful at refuting claims about AI and showing where abuses can occur with the system. His questioning about the use of computers in schools is very relevant and very well thought-out. His history of the computer itself is also interesting, something rarely covered in other sources. The only complaint I had with the book was that it is fairly dated - he did little revision of the 1986 edition and there are points where this is obvious. His point though is as relevant as it was when the book first arrived 22 years ago and very few of his ideas have been proven wrong - on the other hand the AI-hypers look sillier and sillier. Definitely worth reading.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Roszak is as imprisoned by semantics as ever, 15 Jul 1998
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The fellow who coined the phrase "secular humanism" is not about to embrace the full nature of the internet. It would naturally be anathema to him, just as he prized Blake but damned Wordsworth. Roszak is the most Aristotelian of extreme-romance writers. I wish he would take up another hobby.
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