Negative Space: future
- Cultural Histories of the Internet
- Influences on the future and the history of cyberspace.
- Do Not Bend, Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
- Man serves computers as if they were gods, and defers to their judgment in all things. But the more advanced they get, the more mistakes they make.
- Neon Alley
- The Internet in literature, signs and portents of the future, and tutorials for today.
- The New Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is upon us. And it’s coming from Apple.
- PowerShift, Information, and the Internet
- Short review of Alvin Toffler’s PowerShift.
- Random thoughts on VJ day
- What horrors that we face will our children be unable to imagine?
- What Your Children are Doing on the Information Highway
- From 1775 to 1799, the introduction of the personal rifle changed the course of history. The rifle put the balance of power-by-force into the hands of individuals. With that power, the people toppled governments, and took control of their own destiny in t
- What Your Children are Doing on the Information Highway
- There’s something happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
More Information
- The human use of human beings: Cybernetics and Society•
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There are works that come along once in an age and influence generations. Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics is one of these works. Listen: “The dissemination of any scientific secret whatever is merely a matter of time. In this game a decade is a long time, and in the long run, there is no distinction between arming ourselves and arming our enemies.” Wiener shows a prophetic understanding of the nature of information, communication, and automated control of our environment. If you want a book that tells you about the future of the Internet, buy the one what was written in 1950.
