Title Simulation and its discontents / Sherry Turkle ; with additional essays by William J. Clancey [and others].

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages).
Series	Simplicity
	Simplicity (Cambridge, Mass.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
Contents	Simulation and its discontents / Sherry Turkle -- What does simulation want? -- The view from the 1980s -- design and science at the millennium -- New ways of knowing/New ways of forgetting -- Sites of simulation: case studies -- Outer space and undersea -- Becoming a rover / William J. Clancey Intimate sensing / Stefan Helmreich -- Buildings and biology -- Performing the protein fold / Natasha Myers.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.
Subject	Computer simulation.
	Visualization.
	Technology -- History.
	Technology -- Social aspects.
	COMPUTERS -- Computer Simulation.
	Computer simulation. (OCoLC)fst00872518
	Technology. (OCoLC)fst01145078
	Technology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145202
	Visualization. (OCoLC)fst01168121
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Turkle, Sherry.
Other Form:	Print version: Simulation and its discontents. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262012706 0262012707 (DLC) 2008035982 (OCoLC)243941679
ISBN	9780262254847 (electronic bk.)
	0262254840 (electronic bk.)

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