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  • Cited by 20
  • Serge Abiteboul, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, Gilles Dowek, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2020
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781108614139
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614139
Subjects:
Algorithmics, Complexity, Computer Algebra, Computational Geometry, Computer Science, Popular Science, General Science
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Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, society. They upset the concepts of work, property, government, private life, even humanity. Going easily from one extreme to the other, we rejoice that they make life easier for us, but fear that they will enslave us. To get beyond this vision of good vs evil, this book takes a new look at our time, the age of algorithms. Creations of the human spirit, algorithms are what we made them. And they will be what we want them to be: it's up to us to choose the world we want to live in.

Reviews

‘... written by two computer scientists offering a most accessible view on both what algorithms are (the book starts with a clearest analogy between algorithms and recipes) and how algorithms are severely changing human life.’

Simona Chiodo Source: Metascience

‘This short and interesting book provides a non-technical introduction to the age of algorithms. The book is worth reading many times even by those unfamiliar with algorithms or computer science.’

S.V. Nagaraj Source: The SIGACT News

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