by Theodore Roszak · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586086698
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«The Cult of Information» is Theodore Roszak's essay, published by Paladin in paperback (272 pages, in English).
In this essay, subtitled The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking, Theodore Roszak examines society's reverence for information and the exaggerated promises of computing and artificial intelligence. Against the grandiloquent language of his era, the author argues that human thought, not the accumulation of data, is the true way of knowing.
Work originally published in 1985; this Paladin edition is from 1988 and includes an index.
Recommended for those interested in philosophy of technology, sociology of science, and the debate on artificial intelligence.
Theodore Roszak was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1969 text The Making of a Counter Culture.
