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Cover - Electronic Life by Michael Crichton

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Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers

Electronic Life was created as a layman’s guide to computers. It explained simply, concisely and without jargon what computers really are, how to choose them, how to use them, how to think about them, how to live with them, how to get them to help you, how to keep them in their place, how to enjoy them. It described step-by-step instructions on what to do when you first approach a new computer to sound advice on how to stop your computer from causing trouble in the family. His message: Don’t be afraid of them, they’re only machines, they’re here to make your life easier, and, what’s more, they can be a lot of fun.

We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law

“We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law: It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight.” MIT Technology Review, February 24, 2020 Computing/Quantum computing By David Rotman “Finding successors to today’s …

Informatics as a Fundamental Discipline for the 21st Century

Communications of the ACM, April 2019
By Michael E. Caspersen, Judith Gal-Ezer, Andrew McGettrick, Enrico Nardelli

“The emphasis of the report is on informatics education, with informatics seen as the science underpinning the development of the digital world—a distinctive discipline with its own scientific methods, its own ways of thinking, and its own technological development.”