A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Turing Galaxy: on naming the age of the networked digital computer
The most commonly used name for our era is that of the `information society, which is a rather unexpressive and, strictly speaking, tautological term. The informatics & society scholar Wolfgang Coy, following the example of McLuhan`s Gutenberg Galaxy, has introduced the concept of the Turing Gal...
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