The soft edge : a natural history and future of the information revolution /
The Soft Edge is a one-of-a-kind history of the information revolution. In his lucid and direct style, Paul Levinson, historian and philosopher of media and communications, gives us more than just a history of information technologies. The Soft Edge is a book about theories on the evolution of techn...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The first digital medium
- The printed authorship of the modern world
- The age of photography and the ageless image
- Telegraphy
- Telephone
- Electricity
- Radio
- Survival of the media fit
- Remedial media
- Word processing and its masters
- The online author as publisher and bookstore
- Hypertext and author/reader inversions
- The open Web and its enemies
- Twentieth-Century screens
- Paper futures
- Electronic watermarks
- Artificial intelligence in real life
- You can't touch that in cyberspace.