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Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors(The MIT Press)


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Table of Contents:
Part 1 The digital library metaphor - the I-way as publishing and community memory: excerpt from "As We May Think", Vannevar Bush; excerpt from "Libraries of the Future", J.C.R. Licklider; excerpt from "The Digital Library Project", volume 1 - "The World of Knowbots", Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf; excerpt from "Communication as the Root of Scientific Progress", Joshua Lederberg; excerpt from "What is the Role of Libraries in the Information Economy?", John Browning; technological revolutions and the Gutenberg myth, Scott D.N. Cook; excerpt from "Libraries are More than Information - Situational Aspects of Electronic Libraries", Vicky Reich and Mark Weiser; excerpt from "The Electronic Capture and Dissemination of the Cultural Practice of Tibetan Thangka Painting", Ranjit Makkuni. Part 2 The electronic mail metaphor - the I-way as a communications medium: some consequences of electronic groups, Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj; netiquette 101, Jay Machado; excerpt from "The MPC Adventures - Experiences with the Generation of VLSI Design and Implementation Methodologies", Lynn Conway; excerpt from "Digital Communications and the Conduct of Science - the New Literacy", Joshua Lederberg. Part 3 The electronic marketplace metaphor - selling goods and services on the I-way: excerpt from "Electronic Commerce on the Internet", from the CommerceNet Home Page; excerpt from "Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies", Thomas W. Malone et al; slaves of a new machine - exploring the for-free/for-pay conundrum, Laura Fillmore; letting loose the light - igniting commerce in electronic publication, Mark Stefik. Part 4 The digital worlds metaphor - the I-way as a gateway to experience: excerpt from "Mudding - Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities", Pavel Curtis; a rape in Cyberspace - how an evil clown, a Haitian trikster spirit, two wizards and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society, Julian Dibbell; interaction without society? - what avatars can't do, Harry M. Collins; excerpt from "Toward Portable Ideas", Mark Stefik and John Seely Brown; the national collaboratory - a white paper, William A. Wulf; Internet dreams - first encounters of an on-line dream group, Barbara Viglizzo; epilogue - choices and dreams.

About the Author :
Mark Stefik in an inventor and Research Fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he directs the Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780262692021
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 436
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 544 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0262692023
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jul 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The MIT Press
  • Sub Title: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors
  • Width: 142 mm


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