An edition of The soft edge (1997)

The soft edge

a natural history and future of the information revolution

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An edition of The soft edge (1997)

The soft edge

a natural history and future of the information revolution

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The Soft Edge is a one-of-a-kind history of the information revolution. In his lucid and direct style, Paul Levinson, historian and philosopher of media and communications, gives us more than just a history of information technologies. The Soft Edge is a book about theories on the evolution of technology, the effects that human choice has on this (r)evolution, and what's in store for us in the future.Paul Levinson's engaging voice guides us on a tour that explains how communications media have been responsible for major developments in history and for profound chang

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
257

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Subjects

Forecasting, Social Science, Social aspects, Science, Computer science, Mass media, I366, Media Studies, History, Information technology, Telecommunication
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Cover of: Soft Edge
Soft Edge: Nat Hist&Future Info
2005, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Soft Edge
Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution
1997, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: The soft edge
The soft edge: a natural history and future of the information revolution
1997, Routledge
electronic resource : in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction
The first digital medium
The printed authorship of the modern world
The age of photography and the ageless image
Telegraphy
Telephone
Electricity
Radio
Survival of the media fit
Remedial media
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
Artificial intelligence in real life
You can't touch that in cyberspace.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index.

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London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
302.23
Library of Congress
T58.5 .L385 1997eb, T58.5.L385 1997

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Format
[electronic resource] :
Pagination
1 online resource (xviii, 257 p.)
Number of pages
257

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27088057M
Internet Archive
softedgenaturalh00levi_016
ISBN 10
0203981049
ISBN 13
9780203981047
OCLC/WorldCat
61248385

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