Soft Edge:Nat Hist&Future Info

Name: Soft Edge:Nat Hist&Future Info
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ISBN: 9780415157858

ISBN-10: 0415157854

ISBN-13: 9780415157858

Edition: 1997

Authors: Paul Levinson

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With an estimated 50 million users of the internet worldwide today, rapid advancements in technological communication are always wide-reaching and anticipated. While today we expect continuous innovations, history shows the startling impact advancements have on society is not just recent.The Soft Edgeprovides an engaging tour of how communications media have been responsible for major developments in history and for the significant changes in our personal and social lives today. Paul Levinson shows how information technologies influence events in decisive ways at crucial times in history and how they are selected for survival based on how well they accommodate human needs. Using often…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/8/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

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Preface



Introduction



The First Digital Medium: The alphabet and the rise of monotheism



The Printed Authorship of the Modern World



The Age of Photography and the Ageless Image



Telegraphy: The suspect messenger



Telephone: The toy that roared



Electricity: The book's best friend



Radio: All together now



Survival of the Media Fit: Radio, motion pictures, and TV in human ecological niches



Remedial Media: Views via VCR and window



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: A high profile for intellectual property in the digital age



Artificial Intelligence in Real Life



You Can't Touch That in Cyberspace


Bibliography


Index