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Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium

Christian Century, May 24, 2000 by Mark Edwards

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Borgmann also asserts too much and explains too little. I would have liked, for example, to have seen his fine mind explain why he dismisses the possibility of artificial intelligence. Certainly, such an explanation would have been of more interest and use than are his multiple pages on Boolean logic and chip logic gates! Charles Johnscher's skeptical account, The Evolution of Wired Life: From the Alphabet to the Soul-Catcher Chip--How Information Technologies Change Our World, and Mathematician Keith Devlin's Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and The Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind do better job of debunking the claims of artificial-intelligence boosters. But Borgmann does deliver on his promise: the reader finishes Holding On to Reality convinced of the moral importance of doing just that.

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Reviewed by Mark Edwards, president of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium

Christian Century, May 24, 2000 by Mark Edwards

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