The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, and Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier - Couverture rigide

Sinha, Indra

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670886300 ISBN 13 : 9780670886302

Editeur : Viking Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Sinha Indra

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

The Cybergypsies is the story, the personal confession, of 'Bear', an advertising writer with a wife, children and a rambling house in the English countryside, who's about to sacrifice everything for his nightly dose of cyber-reality, in which he may encounter anything from fragments of Sanskrit erotica, to witches, computer viruses, and beatific strangers seeking recipes for chicken curry.
As Bear's real and imaginary lives fuse in a series of bizarre adventures involving people like a pornographic actress, technopaths planning to virus a nuclear plant, and Lord Archer at a Kurdish songfest, his writing work leads him into campaigning on the Net for Kurdish refugees and the gas victims of Bhopal. Their tragedies become woven into the dark dream his life has become, building to a personal and moral crisis. As the net closes, literally, in on him, Bear invites his wife on a trip to Ireland during which he will confess all, in a last desperate attempt to save his marriage.
'Truly extraordinary' Independent
'A vivid, impressionistic tour of some of the darker corners of cyberspace ... An equally vivid evocation of the pleasures of addiction' Observer

Présentation de l'éditeur :

THE CYBERGYPSIES describes one man's exploration of cyberspace over many years and the folk he meets on the Net, the cybergypsies: virus writers, hackers, witches, sex-peddlars, conmen, net vamps, randy paratroopers posing as girls; the A-bomb blueprints he was offered for sale. He recounts with startling honesty how he nearly lost everything because of his obsession with the Net and how the Net can be as dangerous and destructive as any drug addiction. However, the author also shows how the Internet can be used for positive aims, as he describes how he fought for human rights with desperate appeals for the Kurdish refugees in the wake of the Gulf War and justice for Bhopal's gas victims in campaigns involving Jeffrey Archer and Don McCullin.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670886300
• ISBN 13: 9780670886302
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 394