Tag: Influences

Understanding the Digital Revolution and Its Influences


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819749387 | 211 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.4 MB
Guided by the question of why digital technology has a transformative impact, this book systematically explains the root causes of the transformative impact, reexamines the history of human development and the basic point of social division of labor, and further conducts a new deconstruction and elaboration of the logic and development trend of the digital technology impact. The book also analyzes and explains the latest commercial phenomena and future trends associated with the development of digital technology that have emerged. This book creatively points out the necessity and importance of introducing a decision cost analysis into the behavioral choices of economic agents, and puts forward that information processing efficiency is a new standard for measuring the competitive advantage of individuals and economic organizations in the digital era, thus reinterprets the logic of human-economic development. This book has a unique research perspective, includes innovative research and a unified analytic framework, and has achieved an organic and deep integration of the logic of technological evolution and the logic of economic operation, forming many fresh and profound views and insights.

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D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture From Forces to Forms


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English | ISBN: 1350191116 | 2021 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 15 MB
Scottish zoologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often otherwise disconnected.

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Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy A Reader


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English | ISBN: 0748617418 | 2003 | 360 pages | PDF | 41 MB
The influence of East on West – of Eastern ideas on Western thought – has become an increasingly vexed issue in recent times. Opinion is divided between two main schools: those who believe that Oriental ideas have exercised a considerable influence on Western thought, and those who, for a variety of reasons, believe that such influence has remained negligible.In this Reader A. L. Macfie suggests that the reality lies somewhere between these two extremes, and that the interest taken by Western thinkers in Eastern thought in the modern period has moved from one of passing interest, through serious attention, to some level of assimilation and acceptance.

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