Imagining the Internet Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives
by Anderson, Janna Quitney; Rainie, LeeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-07-14
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of property, a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions--and how they turned out. It gives the history of communications in a nutshell, illustrating the serious impact of pervasive networks and how they will change our lives over the next century.
Author Biography
Janna Quitney Anderson is the director of Internet projects and assistant professor of communications in the School of Communications at Elon University in North Carolina
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Internet at the Forefront | p. 4 |
| From Bonfires and Bongos to the Web | p. 15 |
| Web Gems | p. 45 |
| The "Highway" Metaphor | p. 73 |
| Knocking the Net | p. 87 |
| Saddam, O.J., and the Unabomber | p. 104 |
| Nothing Is Certain but Death and Taxes | p. 122 |
| Aristotle, Jefferson, Marx, and McLuhan | p. 139 |
| Supporters Crow About "500 Channels!" Everyone Warns About "Infoglut" | p. 160 |
| Voices of the Net | p. 174 |
| The Threat to Freedom, to the Earth | p. 197 |
| The Future of Networks | p. 215 |
| Nobody Knows You're a Dog | p. 227 |
| Hmmm...Will It Happen? | p. 240 |
| Wired Inspired | p. 253 |
| Recording the Data | p. 263 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 269 |
| Bibliography | p. 280 |
| Index | p. 291 |
| About the Author | p. 307 |
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