The Discrete Charm of the Machine : : Why the World Became Digital / / Ken Steiglitz.
The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television, radio, and vinyl discs; communicated with our analog telephones; and even computed with analog computers. Today our world is digital, built with zer...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t To the Reader -- |t Part I. A Century of Valves -- |t 1. The Discrete Revolution -- |t 2. What’s Wrong with Analog? -- |t 3. Signal Standardization -- |t 4. Consequential Physics -- |t 5. Your Computer Is a Photograph -- |t Part II. Sound and Pictures -- |t 6. Music from Bits -- |t 7. Communication in a Noisy World -- |t Part III. Computation -- |t 8. Analog Computers -- |t 9. Turing’s Machine -- |t 10. Intrinsic Difficulty -- |t 11. Searching for Magic -- |t Part IV. Today and Tomorrow -- |t 12. The Internet, Then the Robots -- |t Epilogue -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television, radio, and vinyl discs; communicated with our analog telephones; and even computed with analog computers. Today our world is digital, built with zeros and ones. Why did this revolution occur? The Discrete Charm of the Machine explains, in an engaging and accessible manner, the varied physical and logical reasons behind this radical transformation.The spark of individual genius shines through this story of innovation: the stored program of Jacquard’s loom; the logical branching of Charles Babbage; Alan Turing’s brilliant abstraction of the discrete machine; Harry Nyquist’s foundation for digital signal processing; Claude Shannon’s breakthrough insights into the meaning of information and bandwidth; and Richard Feynman’s prescient proposals for nanotechnology and quantum computing. Ken Steiglitz follows the progression of these ideas in the building of our digital world, from the internet and artificial intelligence to the edge of the unknown. Are questions like the famous traveling salesman problem truly beyond the reach of ordinary digital computers? Can quantum computers transcend these barriers? Does a mysterious magical power reside in the analog mechanisms of the brain? Steiglitz concludes by confronting the moral and aesthetic questions raised by the development of artificial intelligence and autonomous robots.The Discrete Charm of the Machine examines why our information technology, the lifeblood of our civilization, became digital, and challenges us to think about where its future trajectory may lead. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Technological innovations. | |
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| 653 | |a AND gate. | ||
| 653 | |a Alan Turing. | ||
| 653 | |a Algorithm. | ||
| 653 | |a Analog computer. | ||
| 653 | |a Analog device. | ||
| 653 | |a Analog signal. | ||
| 653 | |a Analog-to-digital converter. | ||
| 653 | |a Artificial neural network. | ||
| 653 | |a Autonomous robot. | ||
| 653 | |a Bell's theorem. | ||
| 653 | |a Calculation. | ||
| 653 | |a Charles Babbage. | ||
| 653 | |a Church–Turing thesis. | ||
| 653 | |a Classical physics. | ||
| 653 | |a Claude Shannon. | ||
| 653 | |a Compact disc. | ||
| 653 | |a Computation. | ||
| 653 | |a Computer music. | ||
| 653 | |a Computer program. | ||
| 653 | |a Computer science. | ||
| 653 | |a Computer scientist. | ||
| 653 | |a Computer. | ||
| 653 | |a Computing. | ||
| 653 | |a Data transmission. | ||
| 653 | |a Detection. | ||
| 653 | |a Difference engine. | ||
| 653 | |a Differential equation. | ||
| 653 | |a Digital data. | ||
| 653 | |a Digital electronics. | ||
| 653 | |a Digital signal processing. | ||
| 653 | |a Digital signal. | ||
| 653 | |a Diode. | ||
| 653 | |a Electrical network. | ||
| 653 | |a Electricity. | ||
| 653 | |a Electromagnetic radiation. | ||
| 653 | |a Electronics. | ||
| 653 | |a Exponential growth. | ||
| 653 | |a Field-effect transistor. | ||
| 653 | |a Fourier analysis. | ||
| 653 | |a High frequency. | ||
| 653 | |a Information theory. | ||
| 653 | |a Instance (computer science). | ||
| 653 | |a Instruction set. | ||
| 653 | |a Integrated circuit. | ||
| 653 | |a Integrator. | ||
| 653 | |a Isaac Asimov. | ||
| 653 | |a Johnson–Nyquist noise. | ||
| 653 | |a Laptop. | ||
| 653 | |a Laughter. | ||
| 653 | |a Logarithm. | ||
| 653 | |a Low frequency. | ||
| 653 | |a Mathematician. | ||
| 653 | |a Mathematics. | ||
| 653 | |a Measurement. | ||
| 653 | |a Microphone. | ||
| 653 | |a Microphotograph. | ||
| 653 | |a Microscope. | ||
| 653 | |a Molecule. | ||
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| 653 | |a NP-completeness. | ||
| 653 | |a Optical fiber. | ||
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| 653 | |a Patch panel. | ||
| 653 | |a Photograph. | ||
| 653 | |a Photon. | ||
| 653 | |a Physicist. | ||
| 653 | |a Probability. | ||
| 653 | |a Processing (programming language). | ||
| 653 | |a Proportionality (mathematics). | ||
| 653 | |a Punched card. | ||
| 653 | |a Quantity. | ||
| 653 | |a Quantum computing. | ||
| 653 | |a Quantum mechanics. | ||
| 653 | |a Radio wave. | ||
| 653 | |a Resistor. | ||
| 653 | |a Result. | ||
| 653 | |a Retransmission (data networks). | ||
| 653 | |a Richard Feynman. | ||
| 653 | |a Scientist. | ||
| 653 | |a Semiconductor. | ||
| 653 | |a Shot noise. | ||
| 653 | |a Silicon. | ||
| 653 | |a Simulation. | ||
| 653 | |a Solid-state electronics. | ||
| 653 | |a Sound recording and reproduction. | ||
| 653 | |a Standardization. | ||
| 653 | |a Technology. | ||
| 653 | |a Television. | ||
| 653 | |a Theorem. | ||
| 653 | |a Theoretical computer science. | ||
| 653 | |a Time complexity. | ||
| 653 | |a Transistor. | ||
| 653 | |a Turing machine. | ||
| 653 | |a Uncertainty. | ||
| 653 | |a Vacuum tube. | ||
| 653 | |a Vacuum. | ||
| 653 | |a Video. | ||
| 653 | |a Wafer (electronics). | ||
| 653 | |a Wave–particle duality. | ||
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