| War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality Revised Edition Contributor(s): Slouka, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465004873 ISBN-13: 9780465004874 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $20.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: Part cultural critique, part call to the ramparts, this funny, eerily disturbing, humanist's look at the culture of cyberspace suggests that more is going on there than mere on-line communication. Offering a brave new vision of the digital avant-garde, Slouka takes a hard look at this revolution-in-the-making and some of the personalities behind it. Line drawings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Reference - Political Science |
| Dewey: 006 |
| LCCN: 95005966 |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.18" W x 7.96" (0.52 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Warning: A technological revolution is unfolding that promises, in the words of its creators, to redefine what it means to be human. Face-to-face communication ("F2F" to those in the know) is quickly becoming obsolete; already we turn to computers for information, entertainment, companionship--even love. Science fiction? Hardly. This is the brave new vision of the digital avant-garde, computer crusaders leading a high-tech assault on what was once known as reality. Sophisticated, well-funded, unabashedly messianic, they have the power, the technological know-how, and the marketplace savvy to make good on many of their wildest prophecies. With War of the Worlds, Mark Slouka gives us a funny, but eerily disturbing, humanist's look at the culture of cyberspace. |