Top Highlights

• Computation is a logic of culture, and so also a logic of design.
• For design, theory and computation have been intertwined for decades.
• The thesis of this book holds that the official utopia and the official dystopia are not particularly useful frames of reference, and that neither provide a robust and intelligent program for art, design, economics, or engineering.
• Today we lack adequate vocabularies to properly engage the operations of planetary-scale computation, and we make use of those at hand regardless of how poorly they serve us.