Soft Edge:Nat Hist&Future Info

Name: Soft Edge:Nat Hist&Future Info
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ISBN: 9780415197724

ISBN-10: 0415197724

ISBN-13: 9780415197724

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Paul Levinson

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Paul Levinson looks at the history of the information revolution going as far back as Egypt and peering into the future to anticipate the future of humans and robots. In the course of the book he asks many thought provoking questions.

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
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