In Machines of Loving Grace,fresh York Times reporter John Markoff, the first reporter to write extensively about the development of the World Wide Web, and offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. As Markoff chronicles the history of automation,from the birth of the artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation communities in the 1950s, to the contemporary day brain trusts at Google and Apple in Silicon Valley, and he traces the different ways developers enjoy addressed this fundamental problem and urges them to carefully consider the consequences of their work.
Event: John Markoff will be in conversation with Steven Levy at Greenlight Bookstore (686 Fulton St. Brooklyn,NY), September 2 at 7:30pm
Source: wnyc.org