Man-tech interdependcy

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A complementary relationship between humans and technology

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Books (6)

  • How to Take Smart Notes
    The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note-taking-technique.
  • Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe
    The book investigates the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age with the use of technology
  • Tools of Thought
    1985 forward-thinking book by Howard Rheingold who asked research pioneers to describe the nascent personal-computer revolution and its trajectory. Revised in 2000.
  • Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
    In this classic work Landow explores the relationship between contemporary literary and social theory and the advances in computers at the time when Internet was about to explode
  • Tools of Thought (1981)
    "Tools of Thought" by Peter Barnett shows that the study of formal reasoning, usually the dullest part of philosophy, can be the liveliest and most relevant.
  • Productive Thinking
    A cornerstone of constructivist approach, milestone in creative thought processes research and an exposition of Gestalt psychology.

Articles (5)

  • Sharing the World with Digital Minds
    The minds of biological creatures occupy a small corner of a much larger space of possible minds that could be created once we master the AI. A sensible approach requires reforms of our moral norms and institutions along with advance planning regarding what kinds of digital minds we bring into existence.
  • Talking Out Loud to Yourself Is a Technology for Thinking
    Self-talk as a contribution to motivation and emotional regulation, with some higher cognitive functions such as developing metacognition and reasoning.
  • Strong Cognitive Symbiosis: Cognitive Computing for Humans
    A survey of existing AI uses suggests a distinction between weak and strong versions of cognitive symbiosis. Article introduces Strong Cognitive Symbiosis with goal to produce software systems whose interactions with people are optimized to identified weaknesses in human, as well as machine cognition.
  • Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development
    For every year that development of technology and colonization of the universe is delayed, there is therefore an opportunity cost: a potential good, lives worth living, is not being realized.
  • As We May Think
    “Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications (..) an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
Scientific Papers (5)