Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives

Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives
ISBN-10
0742568660
ISBN-13
9780742568662
Series
Imagining the Internet
Category
Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2005-07-21
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Author
Janna Quitney Anderson

Description

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.

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