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| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Images Count | 1 |
| The Doctrine of Competitiveness | 6 | |
| The Cultural Boundary between Humans and Machines | 10 | |
| CAD/CAM and Competitiveness | 13 | |
| Intervening through Technology Studies | 18 | |
| Another Try | 26 | |
| 2 | We Put You in Control: The Trade Show | 32 |
| Congruence | 33 | |
| It's All in the Machine | 37 | |
| Where Control Doesn't Fit | 49 | |
| 3 | Does Productivity Fit? | 58 |
| Tar Baby | 60 | |
| Productivity as Burden and Strategy | 63 | |
| Living with the Machine | 65 | |
| Boxed in by Productivity | 71 | |
| Return of the Dominant Image | 74 | |
| 4 | Seducing Money | 82 |
| Quick Bucks | 83 | |
| 1983: A Glorious Future | 86 | |
| 1987: From System to Commodities | 94 | |
| 1990: Living for the Quarterly Report | 100 | |
| 5 | Adapting a Nation around Automation | 107 |
| Hybrid Humans | 109 | |
| Tweaking Boundaries | 117 | |
| Negotiating Inside the Code | 121 | |
| Resistance from Industry | 128 | |
| 6 | Beyond Control and Submission | 134 |
| Who Is the Slave? | 135 | |
| Was This Iteration? | 139 | |
| Authorized Personnel | 141 | |
| Passions Inside | 145 | |
| Configurations of Agency | 150 | |
| Mapping Positions | 153 | |
| 7 | Locating Me Inside It: Coding | 159 |
| First Transcriptions | 161 | |
| Putting Objects into the Machine | 172 | |
| Engines of Analysis | 178 | |
| 8 | Locating It Inside Me: Confusion | 186 |
| "I Want Control" | 187 | |
| "I Just Want a Tool" | 192 | |
| Systematic Confusion | 199 | |
| 9 | The Making of Experts | 210 |
| Birth History | 212 | |
| Becoming Hardware and Software | 214 | |
| Ownership | 222 | |
| Experts in Science? | 226 | |
| More Than One Dimension | 232 | |
| 10 | On the Replacement of Humans with Machines: A Different Humanism | 237 |
| What Might Have Emerged in Industry? | 240 | |
| What Might Have Emerged in Education? | 245 | |
| What Might Have Emerged in Research? | 248 | |
| Notes | 252 | |
| References | 262 | |
| Index | 275 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
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ROB THOMAS
reviewed Machine In Me on July 29, 2019
Machine In Me
One of a very few mathematical books I could recommend to a non-mathematical person.
I think anyone with a visual sensitivity could page through this and enjoy the pictures.
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