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9780415197724

Soft Edge:Nat Hist&Future Info

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415197724

  • ISBN10:

    0415197724

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1998-10-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Boldly extending and deepening the pathways blazed by Marshall McLuhan, Paul Levinson presents an engaging tour of how communications media have been responsible for major developments in history and for the significant changes in our personal and social lives today.The Soft Edgeexplores how information technologies influence events in decisive ways at crucial times in history and how they are selected for survival based on how well they accommodate human needs. Using often original and unusual interpretations of both historic and recent events, Levinson brilliantly displays the role new media plays in society, the effects that human choice has on this (r)evolution, and what's in store for us in the future.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introductionp. 1
The First Digital Medium: The alphabet and the rise of monotheismp. 11
The Printed Authorship of the Modern Worldp. 21
The Age of Photography and the Ageless Imagep. 37
Telegraphy: The suspect messengerp. 49
Telephone: The toy that roaredp. 59
Electricity: The book's best friendp. 69
Radio: All together nowp. 78
Survival of the Media Fit: Radio, motion pictures, and TV in human ecological nichesp. 91
Remedial Media: Views via VCR and windowp. 104
Word Processing and Its Mastersp. 115
The Online Author as Publisher and Bookstorep. 125
Hypertext and Author/Reader Inversionsp. 136
The Open Web and Its Enemiesp. 148
Twentieth-Century Screensp. 162
Paper Futuresp. 174
Electronic Watermarks: A high profile for intellectual property in the digital agep. 187
Artificial Intelligence in Real Lifep. 205
You Can't Touch That in Cyberspacep. 222
Bibliographyp. 233
Indexp. 243
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