Pulitzer-winning author Tracy Kidder: Looking for the soul of the machine makers. (4th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Drollette, Dan
• Is Part Of: Bulletin of the atomic scientists. Volume 73:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 74
• Page End: 79
• Publication Date: 2017-03-04
• Subjects: Computing -- technology -- engineering -- software -- prediction -- futurist; Nuclear energy -- Periodicals; Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- Periodicals; Nuclear energy -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Renewable energy sources -- Periodicals; Nuclear weapons -- Periodicals; Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Periodicals; Nuclear arms control -- Periodicals; 363.1799
• DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2017.1288433
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0096-3402

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of one of the first mass-market nonfiction books about computing – a topic to which he recently returned – gives his impressions of the effects of emerging new technologies, and more important, the mindset of those who build them.