The Machine as Metaphor and Tool /
The machine metaphor is deeply rooted in western culture and complex systemsin nature and society are often interpreted in such terms. With the advent of electronic computers, the machine metaphor applied to thinking and to thebrain has become even more pertinent. The idea of a machine has itself ch...
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Introduction
- The Economist, the Machine and the Network: Continuities and Changes in the Economics of Technology Evolution and Diffusion
- Misled by Metaphors - Two Tools that Don't Always Work; The Brain's Software: 'The Computer' as Metaphor and Metonyme in the Figurative Processing of Cultural Information
- The Mechanization of Time
- Bionics Revisited
- From Clocks to Chaos - Humanizing the Mechanistic World View
- The Three Dimensional Text: Computers, Writing and Performance
- Complex Systems, Synergetics and the Concept of a Machine.