War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality - Brossura

Slouka, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0465004873 ISBN 13: 9780465004874

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 1996

Riassunto

Predicting a forthcoming technological revolution with roots in cyberspace, a cautionary examination of Internet culture reveals "digerati" personalities and their plans for the future

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L'autore:

Mark Slouka is a lecturer in literature and culture at the University of California, San Diego. He's currently writing a book on the decline of the physical world in modern life, and his fiction has appeared in Harper's magazine.

Product Description:

Warning: A technological revolution is unfolding that promises, in the words of its creators, to redefine what it means to be human. Face-to-face communication (F2F to those in the know) is quickly becoming obsolete; already we turn to computers for information, entertainment, companionshipeven love. Science fiction? Hardly. This is the brave new vision of the digital avant-garde, computer crusaders leading a high-tech assault on what was once known as reality. Sophisticated, well-funded, unabashedly messianic, they have the power, the technological know-how, and the marketplace savvy to make good on many of their wildest prophecies. With War of the Worlds, Mark Slouka gives us a funny, but eerily disturbing, humanists look at the culture of cyberspace.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0465004873
• ISBN 13: 9780465004874
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 204