Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate

by JOHNSON STEVEN R.

• ISBN13: 9780465036806
• ISBN10: 0465036805
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-07
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, Steven Johnson not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the computer screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also tracks their roots back to Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning. The result is a lush cultural and historical tableau in which today's interfaces take their rightful place in the lineage of artistic innovation. With a distinctively accessible style,Interface Culturebrings new intellectual depth to the vital discussion of how technology has transformed society, and is sure to provoke wide debate in both literary and technological circles.

Author Biography

Steven Johnson has been named one of the most influential people on Cyberspace by Newsweek, New York magazine, and Websight magazine. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Feed, the award-winning on-line cultural magazine. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Preface: Electric Speed	1	(10)
Bitmapping: An Introduction	11	(31)
The Desktop	42	(34)
Windows	76	(30)
Links	106	(32)
Text	138	(35)
Agents	173	(33)
Conclusion: Infinity Imagined	206	(37)
Notes	243	(5)
Acknowledgments	248	(3)
Index	251