In
this chapter, Youngblood claims that the technosphere is a symbiosis between
man and machine. The computer liberates man from specialization and amplifies
intelligence. It is said that the computer processing is similar with the human
neural processing to some extent. Additionally, Youngblood predicts that
computer software will become more important than the hardware.
This
particular part reminds me another article about the man-computer symbiosis,
which was written by J.C.K. Licklider (1960). He used an example of fig tree
and fig wasp to describe a cooperative relationship between two dissimilar
organisms. Licklider envisioned a similar degree of specification of human and
computer interface, which is that each operator might have distinct way to
interact with the computer, so each member of the group could perform their
tasks in parallel, and then exchanging information to the central machine. Besides,
he points out that human-computer symbiosis is based on humans and machines can
closely interact with each other both in computational level and analytical
level.
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