Turing estableció la naturaleza y limitaciones de las máquinas lógicas mucho antes de que apareciera la primera computadora. Bolter, se propone analizar la manera en que la tecnología electrónica (hoy, tecnología digital) ha influido en el hombre al grado de redefinirse lo que es una máquina. ( )

along with hackers by steven levy this book illuminates the mind of a computer programmer and hammers home the philosophy of programming. but its many other things. the author tracing the movement away from oral to written culture, manually written books to printing, printing to computing, the nuances lost at each step and new nuances gained, how writing/reading affects assimilation of ideas as opposed to hearing/listening is profound. my only complaint it lays it all at the feet of them greek poster boys: aristotle & plato in particular. its always about 'western culture', of course says so on the title, but almost completely ignores the 'east' and its minds, one wonders does the evolved mind begin [and end] with greece. its really cool that the author wrote this book about the programmer's mind in that year of 1984 when mainstream programming was just beginning with the recent release of the IBM PC and Mac. after all these years it remains true. ( )