{"product_id":"simulation-and-its-discontents-paperback","title":"Simulation and Its Discontents - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSherry Turkle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam J. Clancey\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eStefan Helmreich\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In \u003ci\u003eSimulation and Its Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkle's description of architecture students who no longer design with a pencil, of science and engineering students who admit that computer models seem more \"real\" than experiments in physical laboratories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEchoing architect Louis Kahn's famous question, \"What does a brick want?\", Turkle asks, \"What does simulation want?\" Simulations want, even demand, immersion, and the benefits are clear. Architects create buildings unimaginable before virtual design; scientists determine the structure of molecules by manipulating them in virtual space; physicians practice anatomy on digitized humans. But immersed in simulation, we are vulnerable. There are losses as well as gains. Older scientists describe a younger generation as \"drunk with code.\" Young scientists, engineers, and designers, full citizens of the virtual, scramble to capture their mentors' tacit knowledge of buildings and bodies. From both sides of a generational divide, there is anxiety that in simulation, something important is slipping away. Turkle's examination of simulation over the past twenty years is followed by four in-depth investigations of contemporary simulation culture: space exploration, oceanography, architecture, and biology.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), \u003ci\u003eLife on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution.\u003c\/i\u003e She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eEvocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Inner History of Devices, \u003c\/i\u003e all three published by the MIT Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam J. Clancey is Chief Scientist of Human-Centered Computing in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAlien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSilicon Second Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYanni Alexander Loukissas is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCo-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42719727812671,"sku":"9780262546799","price":86.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5cb40922e9ebd3ad4faa389e6781a2db.webp?v=1765086668","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/simulation-and-its-discontents-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}