The internet is not what you think it is : a history, a philosophy, a warning /
"An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died today. Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is N...
| Autore principale: | |
|---|---|
| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
| Pubblicazione: |
Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
|
| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1z3hmcj |
Sommario:
- Introduction. "Let us calculate!"
- 1. A sudden acceleration
- 2. The ecology of the internet
- 3. The reckoning engine and the thinking machine
- 4. "How closely woven the web" : the internet as loom
- 5. A window on the world
- Notes
- General Bibliography
- Index.