Book contents
- The Age of Algorithms
- The Age of Algorithms
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Algorithms Intrigue, Algorithms Disturb
- 2 What Is an Algorithm?
- 3 Algorithms, Computers, and Programs
- 4 What Algorithms Do
- 5 What Algorithms Don’t Do
- 6 Computational Thinking
- 7 The End of Employment
- 8 The End of Work
- 9 The End of Property
- 10 Governing in the Age of Algorithms
- 11 An Algorithm in the Community
- 12 The Responsibility of Algorithms
- 13 Personal Data and Privacy
- 14 Fairness, Transparency, and Diversity
- 15 Computer Science and Ecology
- 16 Computer Science Education
- 17 The Augmented Human
- 18 Can an Algorithm Be Intelligent?
- 19 Can an Algorithm Have Feelings?
- 20 Time to Choose
15 - Computer Science and Ecology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2020
- The Age of Algorithms
- The Age of Algorithms
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Algorithms Intrigue, Algorithms Disturb
- 2 What Is an Algorithm?
- 3 Algorithms, Computers, and Programs
- 4 What Algorithms Do
- 5 What Algorithms Don’t Do
- 6 Computational Thinking
- 7 The End of Employment
- 8 The End of Work
- 9 The End of Property
- 10 Governing in the Age of Algorithms
- 11 An Algorithm in the Community
- 12 The Responsibility of Algorithms
- 13 Personal Data and Privacy
- 14 Fairness, Transparency, and Diversity
- 15 Computer Science and Ecology
- 16 Computer Science Education
- 17 The Augmented Human
- 18 Can an Algorithm Be Intelligent?
- 19 Can an Algorithm Have Feelings?
- 20 Time to Choose
Summary
Algorithms transform the relationship between human beings and nature, and in doing so, transform nature itself. This leads us to examine the relationship between the digital revolution and another transformative factor in our world today: the ecological transition.
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- The Age of Algorithms , pp. 125 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020