The most powerful machines are the ones that process information, that is, text.
The activities of all machines these days are based on which texts come out of computers. This electronic information is, potentially, so rich that it is not an inaccurate picture of what happens in the machine, but a real, essential part of the machine —one, moreover, that is more transparent and accessible than the messiness of matter and life.
Text is no longer a mirror in which you see your own reflection: the reflective sheet of paper is replaced by an embracing screen and (like Alice) you go through the looking-glass into a strange but believable world. In such a world the boundaries between what is ourselves and what is text are lost.
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The activities of all machines these days are based on which texts come out of computers. This electronic information is, potentially, so rich that it is not an inaccurate picture of what happens in the machine, but a real, essential part of the machine —one, moreover, that is more transparent and accessible than the messiness of matter and life.
Text is no longer a mirror in which you see your own reflection: the reflective sheet of paper is replaced by an embracing screen and (like Alice) you go through the looking-glass into a strange but believable world. In such a world the boundaries between what is ourselves and what is text are lost.
Download ebooks on http://www.frenchtheory.com/
See that post with different algorithms in metabole
See the journal French Metablog with today different posts
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