Shaping Things

Name: Shaping Things
Price: 23.5 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780262693264

ISBN-10: 0262693267

ISBN-13: 9780262693264

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bruce Sterling, Lorraine Wild

List price: $34.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $23.50

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

""Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of design and manufacture are appearing that lack historical precedent, he writes; but the production methods, using archaic forms of energy and materials that are finite and toxic, are not sustainable. The future will see a new kind of object -- we have the…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.33" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Bruce Sterling is a recent winner of the Nebula Award and the author of the nonfiction book "The Hacker Crackdown" as well as novels and short story collections. He co-authored, with William Gibson, the critically acclaimed novel "The Difference Engine." He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and daughter.




To Whom it Ought to Concern



Tomorrow Composts Today



Old Wine in New Bottles



The Personal is Historical



Metahistory



A Synchronic Society



The Rubbish Makers



The Stark Necessity of Glamor



An End-User Drinks Gizmo Wine



Meet the Spime



Arphids



An Internet of Things



The Model is the Message



Fabbing



Spime Economics



The Designer's Questions



Tomorrow's Tomorrow



Ublopia or Otivion


Endtroduction


Designer's notes