Imagining the Internet

Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives

Janna Quitney Anderson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2005
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-3936-5 (ISBN)

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In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of "property," a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions—and how they turned out—to put that imagined future in perspective. Interlaced with revealing analysis, this compendium of thoughts from stakeholders and skeptics, from George Orwell, Marshall McLuhan, and Isaac Asimov to Bill Gates, Bruce Sterling, Nicholas Negroponte, Al Gore, and many others, combines history and biography with future visions and a look at the social, political, and economic consequences of new communication technology. It also gives the history of communications in a nutshell, illustrating the serious impact of pervasive networks and how they will change our lives over the next century.

Visit www.elon.edu/predictions/ to view a comprehensive database that forms the investigative basis for this book.

Janna Quitney Anderson is the director of Internet projects and assistant professor of communications in the School of Communications at Elon University, North Carolina.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1 The Internet at the Forefront
Chapter 3 2 From Bonfires and Bongos to the Web
Chapter 4 3 Web Gems
Chapter 5 4 The "Highway" Metaphor
Chapter 6 5 Knocking the Net
Chapter 7 6 Saddam, O.J., and the Unabomber
Chapter 8 7 Nothing is Certain but Death and Taxes
Chapter 9 8 Aristotle, Jefferson, Marx, and McLuhan
Chapter 10 9 Supporters Crow about "500 Channels" and Everyone Warns about "Infoglut"
Chapter 11 10 Voices of the Net
Chapter 12 11 The Threat to Freedom; to the Earth
Chapter 13 12 The Future of Networks
Chapter 14 13 Nobody Knows You're a Dog
Chapter 15 14 Hmmm...Will it Happen?
Chapter 16 Appendix A: Wired Inspired
Chapter 17 Appendix B: Recording the Data
Chapter 18 Suggested Readings
Chapter 19 Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.9.2005
Vorwort	Lee Rainie
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 235 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7425-3936-9 / 0742539369
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-3936-5 / 9780742539365
Zustand	Neuware