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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsFalling for Science: Objects in Mindby Sherry Turkle
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"This is a book about science, technology, and love" writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object: a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dice, a fishing rod. Objects fire imagination and set young people on a path to a career in science. In this collection, distinguished scientists, engineers, and designers as well as twenty-five years of MIT students describe how objects encountered in childhood became part of the fabric of their scientific selves. In two major essays that frame the collection, Turkle tells a story of inspiration and connection through objects that is often neglected in standard science education and in our preoccupation with the virtual. The senior scientists' essays trace the arc of a life: the gears of a toy car introduce the chain of cause and effect to artificial intelligence pioneer Seymour Papert; microscopes disclose the mystery of how things work to MIT President and neuroanatomist Susan Hockfield; architect Moshe Safdie describes how his boyhood fascination with steps, terraces, and the wax hexagons of beehives lead him to a life immersed in the complexities of design. The student essays tell stories that echo these narratives: plastic eggs in an Easter basket reveal the power of centripetal force; experiments with baking illuminate the geology of planets; LEGO bricks model worlds, carefully engineered and colonized. All of these voices, students and mentors, testify to the power of objects to awaken and inform young scientific minds. This is a truth that is simple, intuitive, and easily overlooked. Introductory and concluding essays by: Sherry Turkle. Mentor essays by: Susan Hockfield, Donald Ingber, Alan Kay, Sarah Kuhn, Donald Norman, Seymour Papert, Rosalind Picard, Moshe Safdie. Synopsis:Passion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations. Synopsis:edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle as perSherry]This is a book about science, technology, and love, writes SherryTurkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for anobject--a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dice, a fishing rod. Objectsfire imagination and set young people on a path to a career in science. In thiscollection, distinguished scientists, engineers, and designers as well astwenty-five years of MIT students describe how objects encountered in childhoodbecame part of the fabric of their scientific selves. In two major essays that framethe collection, Turkle tells a story of inspiration and connection through objectsthat is often neglected in standard science education and in our preoccupation withthe virtual. The senior scientists' essays trace the arc of a life: the gears of atoy car introduce the chain of cause and effect to artificial intelligence pioneerSeymour Papert; microscopes disclose the mystery of how things work to MIT Presidentand neuroanatomist Susan Hockfield; architect Moshe Safdie describes how his boyhoodfascination with steps, terraces, and the wax hexagons of beehives lead him to alife immersed in the complexities of design. The student essays tell stories thatecho these narratives: plastic eggs in an Easter basket reveal the power ofcentripetal force; experiments with baking illuminate the geology of planets; LEGObricks model worlds, carefully engineered and colonized. All of thesevoices--students and mentors--testify to the power of objects to awaken and informyoung scientific minds. This is a truth that is simple, intuitive, and easilyoverlooked.Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauz? Professor of the Social Studiesof Science and Technology at MIT and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technologyand Self. She is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit(Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press, 2005) and Life on the Screen: Identity inthe Age of the Internet and the editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With(MIT Press, 2007). Synopsis:This is a book about science, technology, and love, writes Sherry Turkle. In it, we learn how a love for science can start with a love for an object--a microscope, a modem, a mud pie, a pair of dice, a fishing rod. Objects fire imagination and set young people on a path to a career in science. In this collection, distinguished scientists, engineers, and designers as well as twenty-five years of MIT students describe how objects encountered in childhood became part of the fabric of their scientific selves. In two major essays that frame the collection, Turkle tells a story of inspiration and connection through objects that is often neglected in standard science education and in our preoccupation with the virtual. About the AuthorSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A psychoanalytically trained sociologist and psychologist, she is the author of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Twentieth Anniversary Edition, MIT Press), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, and Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution. She is the editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, and The Inner History of Devices, all three published by the MIT Press. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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