Analysis of the way that digital networked technologies and services have infiltrated all sectors of daily life in the 21st century. Explores the cultural effects and implications of these technologies and considers the future in which systems,…
This book provides a historical overview of the ways that humans have accumulated recorded information from the Stone Age to the Digital Age. Wright creates a narrative of that history that provides context for our current Information Age overload.
A fold-out large scale map with electric car lines and city boundaries drawn in red, and an index of streets in the margins. Railroads are also drawn in and labeled.
It begins with a poem abstracting the notion of thresholds, then opens to a story of the nymph Daphne who is transformed into a tree. Revolving the book and peering into the alcoves, the reader moves into the territory of the four “Mythological Meta…