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A history of the Internet and the digital future /

A great adjustment in human affairs is underway. Political, commercial and cultural life is changing from the centralized, hierarchical and standardized structures of the industrial age to something radically different: the economy of the emerging digital era. A History of the Internet and the Digit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ryan, Johnny
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Reaktion Books, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Distributed network, centrifugal ideas. A concept born in the shadow of the Nuke
  • The military experiment
  • The essence of the Internet
  • Computers become cheap, fast and common
  • Expansion. The Hoi Polloi connect
  • Communities based on interest, not proximity
  • From military networks to the global Internet
  • The Web!
  • A platform for trade and the pitfalls of the dot-com
  • The emerging environment. Web 2.0 and the return to the oral tradition
  • New audiences, the fourth wall and extruded media
  • Two-way politics
  • Promise and peril.