WE WERE (ARE?) THE COMPUTER: At the beginning and well into the middle of the twentieth century, the word “computer” referred to a person who worked with pencil and paper.
📖 #HowToSpeakMachine (2019) excerpt 👉 howtospeakmachine.com/2019/1…
ALT Dictionary snapshot for definition of computational.and computator
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Computation walks a fine line between complicated and complexity. Part 2 “LARGE” in my mini-series on #howtospeakmachine is available: youtu.be/vbkqi1aSvTc
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Visited the @Tate today and LiDAR-snapped The Thinker by Rodin. In 2021 you can do a lot of things in less than a minute that often took a few months. Gen-α is superpowered because they know #howtospeakmachine with eery fluidity. But I'm still gonna to try to keep up ...
What you know can help you use best tools, better. @johnmaeda book #howtospeakmachine on what makes computers unique: they are great at repetition and when connected with each other they think and act exponentially
Nunca me lo había planteado hasta el momento en que leí estas líneas de @johnmaeda en #HowToSpeakMachine. Y es difícil de admitir, pero creo que es cierto. Los informáticos tendemos a desarrollar cierta sensación de “superioridad intelectual” que no es nada sana.
Complicated (hard yet doable) vs. complex (not knowable); loops ad infinitum, power of a programmer to create a universe: all compared w/ compounding social media shares & the potential good or harm of the exponentially expanding message. Mind blown #howtospeakmachine@johnmaeda