CMN 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Radioshack, Stone Age, Explicit Knowledge
Document Summary
Human on bicycle is faster than a candor. Ex: dishwasher = addresses washing dishes; car = helps us go from a to b; Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic . The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way. Technology = standardized solutions to address typical needs, derived from knowledge about the world and embedded in physical structure. Arthur clark profiles of the future : past them into the possible . Ex: bill and melinda gates = poop/reinventing the toilet: derived from knowledge about the world. Algorithm = an ordered set of unambiguous, executable steps that defined a terminating process. Question = a very general definition of what an algorithm is a recipe. Question = the difference between implicit knowledge and explicit knowledge is that explicit knowledge can be expressed step-by-step, implicit knowledge not directly: embedded in physical structure = tasks of engineers to take algorithms and embed it in.
