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Appletopia : Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs /

Long before others understood the potential of the personal computer, Jobs saw its true power. But it was his visionary use of media to explain technology to a hungry culture that revealed his singular genius. Robinson reconstructs Jobs' imagination for digital innovation in transcendent terms....

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Autor principal: Robinson, Brett T., 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Introduction: media technology and cultural change -- Macintosh myths -- Allegories for the information age -- iPod devotion -- Acoustic ecstasy and altered states -- iPhone worship -- "Touching is believing" -- Technology and religion -- Where the physical and metaphysical meet -- Conclusion: the paradox of technological belief -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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