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A computer processes numbers and identification information very efficiently and quickly, which is why networks of connected computer represent a flow of bureaucracy.
The sociological use of computers parallels a civilization focus on labor and resource inventory.
The advancement of computing technologies (e.g., video-conferencing, Artificial Intelligence, etc.) is not really presented in the scope of this thread. Rather, this thread is invested in the philosophy of computers (and general computer-use), a subject certainly worthy of evaluation in multiple college-level courses such as Philosophy of Computing at the University of Notre Dame.
The purpose of a computer is to regurgitate proportional output based on the intelligibility of input. A computer never lies, so you can 'trust' its algorithmic ability to produce output relevant to input. Since the computer 'brain' (or 'processor') is very regular and self-evaluative, scientists determine if high-level processors can 'mimic' the functionality and non-redundancy of the human brain/mind.
Because computer-use represents sociological 'wiring,' we can evaluate why computers represent a philosophical understanding of bureaucracy itself, so we can better appreciate 'tech-dogma storytelling.'
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Timothy was a bell-boy and service-waiter at a fancy hotel in Switzerland. He wanted to commit some act of pedestrian terrorism, thinking himself to be a 'vigilante' of sorts, so he used his computer-programming skills (picked up during his college studies) to hack into the computer network at the hotel and plant a virus that scrambles the order chronology and item placement of entrees in room-service orders. The hotel processed room-service orders not just by phone but also by Internet, and Timothy found a way to make protocols...crazy.
On a busy Halloween weekend at the hotel, Timothy's computer-virus work effectively confused the orders of a dozen hotel rooms/guests, and employees were scrambling, while guests were complaining. Timothy sat outside in the employee smoking area, smoking a cigar in glee. "These hotels are now all computer-wired, so room-service is even a greater 'convenience-gluttony' for this new world of luxury-based prestige!" Timothy was thrilled that a little tinkering with computers effectively disoriented the bureaucracy of an entire establishment.
When the 'detectives' connected the dots back to Timothy, he was arrested, but while in jail, he was recruited by the NSA to work on a special cyber-division analyzing terrorist algorithms designed to hack into American computing networks. The NSA was impressed with Timothy's level of acumen at the use of computers and the understanding of algorithm-vulnerability and the placement of destabilizing computer viruses. Timothy was asked to evaluate hundreds of suspicious algorithms which seemed to be destabilization-platform viruses. He smiled and said to himself, "I've become a virtual magician!"
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Tron (Film)
Feynman and The Connection Machine
The sociological use of computers parallels a civilization focus on labor and resource inventory.
The advancement of computing technologies (e.g., video-conferencing, Artificial Intelligence, etc.) is not really presented in the scope of this thread. Rather, this thread is invested in the philosophy of computers (and general computer-use), a subject certainly worthy of evaluation in multiple college-level courses such as Philosophy of Computing at the University of Notre Dame.
The purpose of a computer is to regurgitate proportional output based on the intelligibility of input. A computer never lies, so you can 'trust' its algorithmic ability to produce output relevant to input. Since the computer 'brain' (or 'processor') is very regular and self-evaluative, scientists determine if high-level processors can 'mimic' the functionality and non-redundancy of the human brain/mind.
Because computer-use represents sociological 'wiring,' we can evaluate why computers represent a philosophical understanding of bureaucracy itself, so we can better appreciate 'tech-dogma storytelling.'
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Timothy was a bell-boy and service-waiter at a fancy hotel in Switzerland. He wanted to commit some act of pedestrian terrorism, thinking himself to be a 'vigilante' of sorts, so he used his computer-programming skills (picked up during his college studies) to hack into the computer network at the hotel and plant a virus that scrambles the order chronology and item placement of entrees in room-service orders. The hotel processed room-service orders not just by phone but also by Internet, and Timothy found a way to make protocols...crazy.
On a busy Halloween weekend at the hotel, Timothy's computer-virus work effectively confused the orders of a dozen hotel rooms/guests, and employees were scrambling, while guests were complaining. Timothy sat outside in the employee smoking area, smoking a cigar in glee. "These hotels are now all computer-wired, so room-service is even a greater 'convenience-gluttony' for this new world of luxury-based prestige!" Timothy was thrilled that a little tinkering with computers effectively disoriented the bureaucracy of an entire establishment.
When the 'detectives' connected the dots back to Timothy, he was arrested, but while in jail, he was recruited by the NSA to work on a special cyber-division analyzing terrorist algorithms designed to hack into American computing networks. The NSA was impressed with Timothy's level of acumen at the use of computers and the understanding of algorithm-vulnerability and the placement of destabilizing computer viruses. Timothy was asked to evaluate hundreds of suspicious algorithms which seemed to be destabilization-platform viruses. He smiled and said to himself, "I've become a virtual magician!"
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Tron (Film)
Feynman and The Connection Machine
