Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions

• Main Author: Wierzbicki, Andrzej Piotr (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 71
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Philosophy.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; History, general.; Philosophy of Technology.

The book expresses the conviction that the art of creating tools – Greek techne – changes its character together with the change of civilization epochs and co-determines such changes. This does not mean that tools typical for a civilization epoch determine it completely, but they change our way of p...