November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 46m
English
The question is, indeed, Which is to be master? Will we survive our technologies? We are being propelled into this new century with no plan, no control, no brakes. Have we already gone too far down the path to alter course? I don’t believe so, but we aren’t trying yet, and the last chance to assert control—the fail-safe point—is rapidly approaching. | ||
| --Bill Joy, Founder of Sun Microsystems, April 2000. | ||
Software is a human creation. As such, very little about software—its benefits or its dangers—is preordained. But one aspect is fairly clear; software will play a large part in modern civilization’s well-being and ultimately, perhaps, its sustainability. As world populations grow, ...
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