Internet dreams : archetypes, myths, and metophors /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 412 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109878 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Vinton C. Cerf
- Pt.1. The digital library metaphor : the I-Way as publishing and community memory. Excerpt from "As we may think" / Vannevar Bush
- Excerpt from Libraries of the Future / J. C. R. Licklider
- Excerpt from The digital library project, volume 1 : The world of knowbots / Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf
- Excerpt from "Communication as the root of scientific progress" / Joshua Lederberg
- Excerpt from "What is the role of libraries in the information economy?" / John Browning
- Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg myth / Scott D. N. Cook
- Excerpt from "Libraries are more than information : situational aspects of electronic libraries" / Vicky Reich and Mark Weiser
- Excerpt from "The electronic capture and dissemination of the cultural practice of Tibetan Thangka painting" / Ranjit Makkuni
- (Cont.) Pt.2. The electronic mail metaphor : the I-Way as a communications medium. Some consequences of electronic groups / Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj
- Netiquette 101 / Jay Machado
- Excerpt from "The MPC adventures : experiences with the generation of VLSI design and implementation methodologies" / Lynn Conway
- Excerpt from "Digital communications and the conduct of science : the new literacy" / Joshua Lederberg
- Pt.3. The Electronic Marketplace metaphor : selling goods and services on the I-Way. Excerpt from "Electronic commerce on the Internet" / from the CommerceNet Home Page
- Excerpt from "Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies" / Thomas W. Malone, Joanne Yates, and Robert I. Benjamin
- (Cont.) Slaves of a new machine : exploring the for-free/for-pay conundrum / Laura Fillmore
- Letting loose the light : igniting commerce in electronic publication / Mark Stefik
- Pt.4. The digital worlds metaphor : the I-Way as a gateway to experience. Excerpt from "Mudding : social phenomena in text-based virtual realities" / Pavel Curtis
- A rape in cyberspace : how an evil clown, a Haitian trikster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society / Julian Dibbell
- Interaction without society? : what avatars can't do / Harry M. Collins
- Excerpt from "Toward portable ideas" / Mark Stefik and John Seely Brown
- The national collaboratory
- a white paper / William A. Wulf
- Internet dreams : first encouters of an on-line dream group / Barbara Viglizzo
- Epilogue : choices and dreams.