Me++ : the cyborg self and the networked city /
Mitchell, William J. 1944-2010,
Me++ : the cyborg self and the networked city / William J. Mitchell. - 259 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Boundaries/Networks -- Connecting Creatures -- Wireless Bipeds -- Downsized Dry Goods -- Shedding Atoms -- Digital Doublin' -- Electronic Mnemotechnics -- Footloose Fabrication -- Post-Sedentary Space -- Against Program -- Cyborg Agonistes -- Logic Prisons. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time."--BOOK JACKET.
0262134349 9780262134347
Telecommunication--Social aspects
Computer networks--Social aspects
Cyberspace--Social aspects
Information superhighway--Social aspects
303.483
Me++ : the cyborg self and the networked city / William J. Mitchell. - 259 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Boundaries/Networks -- Connecting Creatures -- Wireless Bipeds -- Downsized Dry Goods -- Shedding Atoms -- Digital Doublin' -- Electronic Mnemotechnics -- Footloose Fabrication -- Post-Sedentary Space -- Against Program -- Cyborg Agonistes -- Logic Prisons. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time."--BOOK JACKET.
0262134349 9780262134347
Telecommunication--Social aspects
Computer networks--Social aspects
Cyberspace--Social aspects
Information superhighway--Social aspects
303.483