War of the World: Cyberspace and the High-tech Assault on Reality - Couverture souple

Slouka, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349107858 ISBN 13 : 9780349107851

Editeur : Abacus, 1996

Synopsis

Mark Z. Slouka argues that the perception of reality in America has been radically altered by the emergence of new technologies. The notion of reality as an empirical shared state of existence has been particularly challenged by a revolution in the "virtual" technologies spawned by the computer industry. What is "real" in a society infiltrated by technologies which manipulate images, which replace the written word and which offer entire alternative cyberspace communities accessible only through the window of a computer screen? Slouka claims that reality itself is under siege and that, in particular, the cyberspace revolution has all the potency of a new religion - a cult which is eager to replace this world and its mundane grubbiness with a mathematically pure and clinically correct "heaven".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349107858
• ISBN 13: 9780349107851
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible