The acceleration of cultural change [electronic resource] : from ancestors to algorithms

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서명/저자사항	The acceleration of cultural change [electronic resource]: from ancestors to algorithms / R. Alexander Bentley ; foreword by John Maeda.
개인저자	Bentley, R. Alexander, 1970- author. O'Brien, Michael J. (Michael John), 1950- author.
발행사항	Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, [2017].
형태사항	1 online resource.
총서사항	Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
기타형태 저록	Print version: Bentley, R. Alexander, 1970- The acceleration of cultural change. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017] 9780262036955
ISBN	9780262343053 0262343053
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Foreword -- Preface: in the middleton theater -- Traditional minds -- Change is not norman -- Check the transmission -- Cultural trees -- Bayesians -- Traditions and horizons -- Networks -- Hindsighted -- Moore is better? -- Free willy -- Bibliography.
요약	From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and playing Minecraft. Only the collective acceleration of cultural and technological evolution explains this development. The evolutionary psychology of individuals?the drive for ?food and sex??explains some of our current habits, but our evolutionary success, Alex Bentley and Mike O?Brien explain, lies in our ability to learn cultural know-how and to teach it to the next generation. 00Bentley and O?Brien examine the broad and shallow model of cultural evolution seen today in the science of networks, prediction markets, and the explosion of digital information. They suggest that in the future, artificial intelligence could be put to work to solve the problem of information overload, learning to integrate concepts over the vast idea space of digitally stored information.
일반주제명	Social evolution. Social evolution. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
분류기호(DDC)	303.4
언어	영어
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