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Joseph Weizenbaum’s Followers (25)
Joseph Weizenbaum
Born
Berlin, Germany
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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
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1976
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15 editions
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Wo sind sie, die Inseln der Vernunft im Cyberstrom?
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2006
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Computermacht und Gesellschaft. Freie Reden.
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Islands in the Cyberstream: Seeking Havens of Reason in a Programmed Society
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2015
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3 editions
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Kurs Auf Den Eisberg
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1984
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2 editions
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Sind Computer Die Besseren Menschen?: Ein Streitgespräch
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1992
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Zur Anpassung Des Designs An Die Digitalen Medien
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1997
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Mýtus počítače
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2002
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On the impact of the computer on society
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Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum (1984-06-05)
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“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.”
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“The salvation of the world depends only on the individual whose world it is. At least, every individual must act as if the whole future of the world, of humanity itself, depends on him. Anything less is a shirking of responsibility and is itself a dehumanizing force, for anything less encourages the individual to look upon himself as a mere actor in a drama written by anonymous agents, as less than a whole person, and that is the beginning of passivity and aimlessness.”
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“Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for these great achievements is claimed by the new spirit of rationalism, a rationalism that, it is argued, has finally been able to tear from man's eyes the shrouds imposed by mystical thought, religion, and such powerful illusions as freedom and dignity. Science has given us this great victory over ignorance. But, on closer examination, this victory too can be seen as an Orwellian triumph of an even higher ignorance: what we have gained is a new conformism, which permits us to say anything that can be said in the functional languages of instrumental reason, but forbids us to allude to...the living truth...so we may discuss the very manufacture of life and its 'objective' manipulations, but we may not mention God, grace, or morality.”
― Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
― Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
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