Tools for thought: the history and future of mind-expanding technology

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Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of "retrospective futurism" in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. -- Provided by publisher

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Full title :Tools for thought : the history and future of mind-expanding technology / Howard Rheingold.

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Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

Notes

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1985.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (359 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585296103, 9780585296104
oclc:ocm45734156
LC Classification:QA76.5.
Dewey Decimal:303.48/34

The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet -- The First Programmer Was a Lady -- The First Hacker and His Imaginary Machine -- Johnny Builds Bombs and Johnny Builds Brains -- Ex-Prodigies and Antiaircraft Guns -- Inside Information -- Machines to Think With -- Witness to Software History: The Mascot of Project MAC -- The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker -- The New Old Boys from the ARPAnet -- The Birth of the Fantasy Amplifier -- Brenda and the Future Squad -- Knowledge Engineers and Epistemological Entrepreneurs -- Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond.

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Computers -- Social Aspects Electronic books History Innovations -- Histoire kunstmatige intelligentie Machines Micro-ordinateurs -- Histoire Microcomputadores Microcomputers Microcomputers -- History Technological innovations Technological innovations -- History Tecnologia -- Història