Simulation and Its Discontents

by Sherry Turkle

Book Overview

How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.

Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012707
• ISBN13: 9780262012706
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher