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Islands in the clickstream : reflections on life in a virtual world /
CNN called Richard Thieme "a member of the cyber avant-garde". Digital Delirium named him "one of the most creative minds of the digital generation". Now Richard Thieme's wisdom on the social and cultural dimensions of technology is available in a single volume. "Island...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Rockland, MA :
Syngress Pub. : Distributed by O'Reilly & Associates,
�2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; Preface; About the Author; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1 Introduction: This is the Way the Internet Works; Ferg's Law; Chapter 2 Computer-Mediated Living: The Digital Filter; Games Engineers Play; Dreams Engineers Have; Fractals, Hammers, and Other Tools; Not a Book; Darling; Sneaking Up On Ourselves; The Air We Breathe; Voyagers; Densities; Waiting for the Bard Group; Humanity Morphing; Necessary Fictions; Building the Matrix; History and Myth; Modules and Metaphors; Beyond Belief; The Crazy Lady on the Treadmill; Chapter 3 Doing Business Digitally
- Failing into SuccessGenerating Power; Digital Civility; The Pattern of Community; Beanie Babies and the Source of All Things; Why the Soft Stuff is Hard; Professional Communicators; Straight Talk; Time for Yoda
- and Yodette; Whistleblowers and Team Players; Chapter 4 Hacking and the Passion for Knowledge; Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas; The Enemy is ... WHO?; A Moment of Clarity; If Truth Be Told; Life in Space; Don Quixote Goes Digital; Knowledge, Obsession, Daring; In Defense of Hacking; Hactivism and Soul Power; Hacking Chinatown; Hacker Generations; Chapter 5 Digital Spirituality
- A Silent RetreatA Nightmare in Daylight; Mutuality, Feedback, and Accountability; The Illusion of Control; The Day the Computer Prayed; Climbing Down the Iceberg; A Digital Fable; Digital Religion; What the Platypus Dreamed; What Is, Is; Showing Up; Millenium's End; An Owl in Winter: Millenium's End II; Night Light; Breaking the Code; Invitation to a Seance; Getting Real; A Dry Run; Words, Words, Words; What Works?; Two Ways of Looking at a Network; Christmas 2001
- The Base; Looking for Paradise; Chapter 6 Mostly True Predictions; Learning to Live in Cyberspace; Reaching the Honey
- No More Pencils, No More BooksNowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide; Where Do YouWant To Go Today?; The Digital Forest; The Challenge to Our Humanity; A Vision of Possibilities; A Flashlightin a Haunted House; When ComputersAre Free To Be Computers; Distortions; Generations; Child's Play; Chapter 7 The Psychology of Digital Life: Identity and Destiny; In Search of the Dancing Bee; Beyond the Edge; The Perils of Parallax; The Power of Projection, The Power of Digital Presence; The Voice of the Computer; Memory Storage; Detours; Christmas Presence; Winter Dreams; Summer Nights; The Power of Love
- The Field of SubjectivityBut To What Purpose?; A Model for Managing Multiple Selves; The Next Bend of the River; What's His Name; No No No; Chapter 8 Political Implications; Freedom and the Net; Chapter 9 The Dark Side of the Moon and Beyond; Life in the Nudist Colony; What Is To Be Done?; Computers, Freedom, and Privacy; The Rights of Survivors; Who Cares?; Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map; A Digital Innocent; About Faces; The Face of Evil; The Only Thing We Have to Fear; Battlespace; Be Alert; The Power Grid; Lest We Forget; The Cycle of Complacency; The Horror of War