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Information technology

Henrik Sinding-Larsen

pp. 119-130

Abstrakt

The development of information technology is approached here through the concept of "externalization". Computer programming is seen as a step in the human history of externalization which can only be compared with the invention of speech and writing. But what happens to human knowledge when it is externalized as computer programs? Sinding-Larsen uses the development of the system of musical notation as a comparison. He finds complex relationships between the notation system and the music, as he does between computer technology and humankind's knowledge. As musical notation transformed music, computer technology transforms our knowledge.

Publication details

Published in:

Göranzon Bo, Florin Magnus (1991) Dialogue and technology: art and knowledge. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 119-130

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-1731-5_14

Referenz:

Sinding-Larsen Henrik (1991) „Information technology“, In: B. Göranzon & M. Florin (eds.), Dialogue and technology, Dordrecht, Springer, 119–130.