| Description |
viii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction: Let's Get Sober -- -- Part I: Context: A Brief (and Opinionated) Net History -- One Anarchy That Works -- Two The Untelevised R/evolution -- Three Anarchy That Sort of Works and Sort of Doesn't -- Four Acronym City -- Five The Net Before It Got Webbed -- References -- -- Part 1I: Triumph of the Web -- Six The Rise and Fall of the Web -- Seven From Friendly Interface to Storefront Window -- Eight Follow the Money -- Nine The Fittest -- Ten Down with the Web -- Eleven State d'Art -- References -- -- Part III: Utopia and Its Discontents -- Twelve The Engines of Change -- Thirteen One World -- Fourteen That Memesis Thesis -- Fifteen Utopia in Extremis -- Sixteen Luddite Lite -- Seventeen What Ever Happened to the Future? -- -- Part IV: The New Terms of the Old Debates -- Eighteen Abstracts -- Nineteen Empowerment, Entertainment, or Enslavement? -- -- -- -- Twenty Hot Buttons and Slow Burners -- References -- -- Part V: One Dark Future -- Twenty-One "The Voice of the Digital Revolution" -- Twenty-Two The Other L-Word -- Twenty-Three The Techno Elite -- Twenty-Four "The Californian Ideology" -- Twenty-Five Isn't It Ironic? -- Twenty-Six The "Rewired" Interview with Paulina Borsook -- Twenty-Seven The Fall Out -- Twenty-Eight How Tired Is Wired? -- Twenty-Nine What to Do -- Thirty What "Kind" of Libertarian-An Interview with Louis Rossetto -- References -- -- Part VI: Communities Real and Imagined -- Thirty-One Socializing (on) the Web -- Thirty-Two A Talk with Howard Rheingold -- Thirty-Three Pomo Threads -- Thirty-Four The First and Last Miles -- Thirty-Five What's the Point? An Interview with E:ight -- Community Networkers and a Mayor -- References -- -- Conclusion: People Are the Killer App |
| Summary |
"David Hudson charts the course of the Internet from its quiet birth, through its anarchic salad days, to the impact of commercialization of the web and the current rush to convert the Net into a passive infotainment medium."--BOOK JACKET. "In interviews with Wired editor Louis Rossetto and former Wired contributing writer Paulina Borsook, Hudson takes measure of the magazine that claims to be "the voice of the digital revolution" and the libertarianism it has helped to promote. Howard Rheingold discusses his current views on virtual communities and his hopes of bringing a more social form of communication to the web, and eight network administrators describe the ideals behind their hands-on efforts to wire their local communities."--BOOK JACKET |
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"Surveying the shifting landscape, Hudson unravels the fringe ideas of a technotranscendental global consciousness and Extropian sci-fi dreams of uploading the human mind onto computer hard disks, probes the deeper issues of online identity, privacy and censorship, and explores new forms of publishing and artistic expression."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Cover sub-title: a brief (and opinionated) net history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-324) |
| Subject |
Internet -- Economic aspects.
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Internet -- History.
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Internet -- Political aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Internet.
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World Wide Web -- Social aspects.
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World Wide Web.
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| Author |
eLine Productions.
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| LC no. |
96078514 |
| ISBN |
1578700035 (jkt.) |
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