Date sent: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:26:59 +1100 To: extropians@extropy.com From: patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au (Patrick Wilken) Subject: BIBLIO: The New Renaissance Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> I was just sent this from Amazon.com. Thought it might be of some interest.
>
> best, patrick
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> "The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of
> Civilization"
> by Douglas S. Robertson
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195121899/ref=ad_cy1
> Robertson shows how higher levels of civilization are
> largely determined by the speed at which information can be
> relayed. As a result, the communications technology made
> possible by computers is about to enable human societies to
> make advances on a previously unimaginable scale. This book
> draws upon the history of technological innovation, modern
> scientific and mathematical theory, and examples from
> Robertson's imagination to depict the scope of coming change
> as our civilization leaps toward its next level.
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> Patrick Wilken http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~patrickw/
> Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness
> Secretary: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
> http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/
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>
Check out "Complexity & Postmodernism" by Paul Cilliers. Joe