Computer Power and Human Reason on Internet Archive

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The Internet Archive hosts a digital catalog entry and restricted-access scan of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book 'Computer power and human reason: from judgment to calculation'.

Key points

  1. The book was published in 1976 by W. H. Freeman in San Francisco.
  2. The 300-page work is categorised under computers, computers and civilisation, and computer programming.
  3. The entry is part of the 'printdisabled' collection on Internet Archive and marked as an access-restricted borrowable item.

Why it matters

The archive record preserves the bibliographic metadata and digital access information for a seminal historical text examining computational limits versus human judgment.

Analysis

The source page contains catalogue metadata and digitization parameters from Internet Archive. Full reading access is subject to lending restrictions and print-disabled collection rules.

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