The soft edge : a natural history and future of the information revolution /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Levinson, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Information technology > History.
Information technology > Forecasting.
Technologie de l'information > Histoire.
Technologie de l'information > Prévision.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Information technology
Information technology > Forecasting
Informationstechnik
Geschichte
Prognose
Informatietechnologie.
Samfundsvidenskab > Sociologi.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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