Who Are We in the Digital Age?
This is about why human beings can and will stay masters of the new information technologies. Jonscher maps both the opportunities and limits of the wired society, in the process debunking the high priests of IT and reasserting the ingenuity and centrality of human intelligence to our future. It is a high-speed tour of Pythagorean philosophy, evolutionary biology, neuro-chemistry, information theory and electromagnetics to show not only how superior, but also how qualitatively different the human brain is from any conceivable machine. Jonscher is not out to proselytise on behalf of his industry; his top priority is to hammer home his sceptic's agenda.
