Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

Name: Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
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ISBN: 9780262015479

ISBN-10: 0262015471

ISBN-13: 9780262015479

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Lunenfeld, Brian Roettinger

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The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century's culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of production, the means of distribution, and the site of reception. We haven't quite achieved the flying cars and robot butlers of futurist fantasies, but we do have a machine that can function as a typewriter and a printing press, a paintbrush and a gallery, a piano and a radio, the mail as well as the mail carier. But, warns Lunenfeld, we should temper our celebration with caution; we are engaged in a secret war between downloading and uploading-between passive consumption and active creation-and the outcome will shape our collective futures. In The Secret War…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/22/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Peter Lunenfeld is Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA and the author of User: InfoTechnoDemo, Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, and The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine, all published by the MIT Press.