Commentary 8 What Computer Networks Can't Do Mike Rubingh Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 In 1972, Hubert Dreyfus published a skeptical response to early computer hype regarding artificial intelligence in a book called What Computers Can't Do: a Critique of artificial Reason (Dreyfus, 1972); a quarter of a century later, with computer power and computer hype exponentially more developed, Stephen Doheny-Farina presents a similarly skeptical response to computer networking developments and their hype in his book The WtredNeigh. borhood. A good subtitle to this book might in fact echo Dreyfus: The WiredNeighborhood-What Computer Networks Can't Do--The Limits of Artificial Communities, because Doheny-Farina exposes what he sees as the Emperor's-New-Clothes of artificial "community" just as Dreyfus did regarding artificial "intelligence." Doheny-Fadna refuses the position of"neo-Luddite" in this book. Following Langdon Winner regarding technology (x), he wants to value media and net developments within appropriate limits, "not shunning the net but steering it" (xii), and above all using new media to enhance local, geophysical communities and their networks of relations, rather than allowing shifts to the global to kill those networks and their communities. Although an optimist in reality (see the interview with Doheny-Farina at the end of these reviews),
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What Computer Networks Can't Do
Rubingh, Mike
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 21 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Nov 1, 1997
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