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9781585671847

A Brief History of the Future

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  • ISBN13:

    9781585671847

  • ISBN10:

    1585671843

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Overlook Pr
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Summary

The Internet is the most remarkable achievement of humankind since the pyramids. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools succeeded in creating such a leviathan.

Author Biography

John Naughton is an academic and a journalist. He teaches at the Open University and has written an award-winning weekly column for the Observer for more than ten years. He lives in Cambridge, England, and is a fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Part I Wonderment
Radio days
3(10)
The digital beanstalk
13(12)
A terrible beauty?
25(24)
Part II A brief history of the future
Origins
49(28)
Imps
77(15)
Hot potatoes
92(18)
Hindsight
110(8)
Packet post
118(22)
Where it's @
140(11)
Casting the Net
151(17)
The poor man's ARPANET
168(16)
The Great Unwashed
184(9)
The gift economy
193(16)
Part III Only connect...
Web dreams
209(20)
Liftoff
229(24)
Home Sweet home
253(11)
Epilogue: The wisdom of the Net 264(14)
Notes 278(21)
A note on sources 299(4)
Glossary 303(12)
Index 315

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