Imagining the Internet
Author | : Janna Quitney Anderson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN-10 | : 0742539377 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780742539372 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Download or read book Imagining the Internet written by Janna Quitney Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of 'property, ' a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions--and how they turned out. It gives the history of communications in a nutshell, illustrating the serious impact of pervasive networks and how they will change our lives over the next century.