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1. www.newscientist.com › article › mg21829172-200-aA brilliant trip back to the technological future | New Scientist

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   May 15, 2013 · Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony. By Simon Ings. 15 May 2013. Lem...

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   1964. Published in English. 2013. Pages. 448. ISBN. 978-0816675777. Summa Technologiae (the Latin -language title translates as " Summa ( Compendium) of Technology ") is a 1964 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Summa is one of the first collections of philosophical essays by Lem.

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   Apr 9, 2024 · In Lem’s Summa Technologiae we find hypotheses on the nature of technology and how it mediates human knowledge and evolution. Lem is a formidable technology theorist whose work aligns with...

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   In 1964, the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem published a book he called Summa Technologiae. The title is a reference to Thomas Aquinas’ unfinished synthesis of theological knowledge—Summa Theologiae—written seven centuries earlier.

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   At the same time the book rivals world futurology - in the domain of foreseeing future ways of science and technology. Current generation, interested in biotechnology and informatics, shall find in Lem's “Summa” the project and prophecy of todays' successes of these disciplines.

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   Lem’s Summa Technologiae is undoubtedly the place to go. Lem (1921–2006) is best known to English-speaking readers as the author of the novel Solaris (1961), the film versions of which were directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (Grand Prix at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival) and Steven Soderbergh (2002). However, science fiction

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   What does Summa Technologiae mean?

   • Summa Technologiae (the Latin -language title translates as " Summa ( Compendium) of Technology ") is a 1964 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Summa is one of the first collections of philosophical essays by Lem. The book exhibits depth of insight and irony usual for Lem's creations. [citation needed]

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   What was Lem's 'summa Technologie'?

   • It is amazing how much Lem got right, or even predicted. This ranges across artificial intelligence, the theory of search engines (he called it “ariadnology”), bionics, virtual reality (“phantomatics”), technological singularity and nanotechnology. „Summa Technologie” is a „mother-essay” from which most of Lem's later essayistic books stem.

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   Will Lem's 'Summa Technologiae' be a shock?

   • The habit never left him. With Summa Technologiae, his masterwork of non-fiction which has been translated into English for the first time, Lem has taken Western civilisation for a spin – with spectacular consequences. The book will be a fabulous shock to those who know only his science fiction, such as Solaris or The Cyberiad.

   A brilliant trip back to the technological future | New Scientist

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   Is Summa Technologiae a timeliness?

   • Lem himself seemed to remain convinced about the long-lasting timeliness of Summa’s argument, a timeliness that went well beyond the fulfillment of any particular scientific prophecies of his, when he confessed to the Polish literary critic Stanisław Bereś that “from my discursive books Summa Technologiae is the only one I am happy with.

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfCybernetic Futures: Stanislaw Lem, 'Summa Technologiae' - JSTOR

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   Stanislaw Lern (1921-2006) was one of the great science fiction the twentieth century. Summa Technologiae (translated by. ska. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Pp. $34.95), which appeared in Polish in 1964 and only now in. major work of nonfiction. It is an extended meditation on the. ence, technology, and society, one that ...