Technological visions : the hopes and fears that shape new technologies /
Technological visions : the hopes and fears that shape new technologies /
edited by Marita Sturken, Douglas Thomas, and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach.
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.
- viii, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : technological visions and the rhetoric of the new / Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas -- "Spinning" technology : what we are not thinking about when we are thinking about computers / Sherry Turkle -- Sow's ears from silk purses : the strange alchemy of technological visionaries / Langdon Winner -- Mediums and media / Jeffrey Sconce -- Mobilities of time and space : technologies of the modern and the postmodern / Marita Sturken -- Man-made futures, man-made pasts / Asa Briggs -- Portable TV : studies in domestic space travels / Lynn Spigel -- Science fiction film and the technological imagination / Vivian Sobchack -- Technological prediction : a Promethean problem / David E. Nye -- The future of prediction / John Perry Barlow -- Penguins, predictions, and technological optimism : a skeptic's view / Wendy M. Grossman -- Information superhighways, virtual communities, and digital libraries : information society metaphors as political rhetoric / Peter Lyman -- Rethinking the cyberbody : hackers, viruses, and cultural anxiety / Douglas Thomas -- Peaceable kingdoms and new information technologies : prospects for the nation-state / Carolyn Marvin -- Somewhere there's a place for us : sexual minorities and the Internet / Larry Gross -- Surfin' the Net : children, parental obsolescence, and citizenship / Sarah Banet-Wieser -- When the virtual isn't enough / Katie Hafner -- Place matters : journeys through global and local spaces / Richard Chabrn��?� and Romelia Salinas -- The globalization of everyday life : visions and reality / Jennifer L. Gibbs ... [et al.].
159213226X (cloth : alk. paper) 1592132278 (pbk. : alk paper)
2003063392
Technology--Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Technological innovations--History.
T14.5 / .T4396 2004
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : technological visions and the rhetoric of the new / Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas -- "Spinning" technology : what we are not thinking about when we are thinking about computers / Sherry Turkle -- Sow's ears from silk purses : the strange alchemy of technological visionaries / Langdon Winner -- Mediums and media / Jeffrey Sconce -- Mobilities of time and space : technologies of the modern and the postmodern / Marita Sturken -- Man-made futures, man-made pasts / Asa Briggs -- Portable TV : studies in domestic space travels / Lynn Spigel -- Science fiction film and the technological imagination / Vivian Sobchack -- Technological prediction : a Promethean problem / David E. Nye -- The future of prediction / John Perry Barlow -- Penguins, predictions, and technological optimism : a skeptic's view / Wendy M. Grossman -- Information superhighways, virtual communities, and digital libraries : information society metaphors as political rhetoric / Peter Lyman -- Rethinking the cyberbody : hackers, viruses, and cultural anxiety / Douglas Thomas -- Peaceable kingdoms and new information technologies : prospects for the nation-state / Carolyn Marvin -- Somewhere there's a place for us : sexual minorities and the Internet / Larry Gross -- Surfin' the Net : children, parental obsolescence, and citizenship / Sarah Banet-Wieser -- When the virtual isn't enough / Katie Hafner -- Place matters : journeys through global and local spaces / Richard Chabrn��?� and Romelia Salinas -- The globalization of everyday life : visions and reality / Jennifer L. Gibbs ... [et al.].
159213226X (cloth : alk. paper) 1592132278 (pbk. : alk paper)
2003063392
Technology--Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Technological innovations--History.
T14.5 / .T4396 2004