Computers
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Now one of the things that we know is that companies are very good at getting people to work together in teams and in networks to make very complex products, like cars and computers, and the more complex the products are a society creates, the more successful the society is over time.
As
computers
became increasingly more complex, our students were losing the forest for the trees, and indeed, it is impossible to connect with the soul of the machine if you interact with a black box P.C. or a Mac which is shrouded by numerous layers of closed, proprietary software.
So Noam and I had this insight that if we want our students to understand how
computers
work, and understand it in the marrow of their bones, then perhaps the best way to go about it is to have them build a complete, working, general-purpose, useful computer, hardware and software, from the ground up, from first principles.
"I did the coursework because understanding
computers
is important to me, just like literacy and numeracy, and I made it through.
And at MIT, however, I learned about the computer at all levels, and after, I went to art school to get away from computers, and I began to think about the computer as more of a spiritual space of thinking.
It looks like it's happening kind of quickly, but it's actually a very slow computer, and when I realized how slow this computer was compared to how fast a computer is, it made me wonder about
computers
and technology in general.
So for the first time, we don't have to look at just averages over single individuals, or have individuals playing computers, or try to make inferences that way.
And of course, a few of us are saying: okay,
computers!
What about
computers?
The thing about
computers
is, I love
computers.
I mean, I'm a huge geek, I love
computers.
But
computers
don't do much else other than speed up the process of compiling dictionaries.
We have algorithms that are smarter than ever before, and
computers
that are quicker than ever before.
No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you'll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise, because in the end, it is a uniquely human trait.
So, a problem in explaining how children learn language, a problem in teaching language to adults so that they don't make grammatical errors, and a problem in programming
computers
to use language is which verbs go in which constructions.
Let's put more
computers
in our schools.
You learn more about how
computers
work.
As fast as we can reset our computers, the brain activity shifts to start representing this new tool, as if this too was a part of that primate's body.
["The British Empire"] Imagine trying to run the show, trying to run the entire planet, without computers, without telephones, with data handwritten on pieces of paper, and traveling by ships.
Well, the clerks are the
computers.
And you have people who guide those
computers
to do their clerical jobs.
At the same time, we also had lots of parents, rich people, who had computers, and who used to tell me, "You know, my son, I think he's gifted, because he does wonderful things with
computers.
I put in Hole in the Wall
computers
there, downloaded all kinds of stuff from the Internet about DNA replication, most of which I didn't understand.
At 12,000 feet, where the air is thin, I once built two Hole in the Wall computers, and the children flocked there.
So many times, amateurs, not experts, have been the inventors and improvers of things ranging from mountain bikes to semiconductors, personal computers, airplanes.
So I feel a bit as Ted Nelson must have when, in the early 1970s, he wrote, "You must understand
computers
now."
Back then,
computers
were these large mainframes only scientists cared about, and no one dreamed of even having one at home.
But the fact is, people are mostly focused on defending the
computers
on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.
We are not talking about our computers, nor the cameras that are on the streets, in the stores and shop-windows, in the airports and trains, and wherever we are, being watched.
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