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Artificial
An annotated collection of 1 books on artificial, spanning 1969. Featuring works by Herbert A. Simon — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert A. Simon, 1969 · MIT Press (3rd edition, 1996)
Simon's argument is that designed systems — artefacts, organisations, software, economies — require their own science, distinct from the natural sciences: a science of the artificial, concerned with the interface between…