Technological visions the hopes and fears that shape new technologies
For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting collection, a range of contributors, including Sherry Turkle, Lynn Spigel, John Perry Barlow, Langdon Winner, David Nye, and Lord Asa Briggs, discuss t...
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- Acknowledgments Introduction: Technological Visions and the Rhetoric of the New Marita Sturken and Douglas Thomas 1. "Spinning" Technology: What We Are Not Thinking about When We Are Thinking about Computers Sherry Turkle 2. Sow's Ears from Silk Purses: The Strange Alchemy of Technological Visionaries Langdon Winner 3. Mediums and Media Jeffrey Sconce 4. Mobilities of Time and Space: Technologies of the Modern and the Postmodern Marita Sturken 5. Man-made Futures, Man-made Pasts Lord Asa Briggs 6. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travels Lynn Spigel 7. Science Fiction Film and the Technological Imagination Vivian Sobchack 8. Technological Prediction: A Promethean Problem David E. Nye 9. The Future of Prediction John Perry Barlow 10. Penguins, Predictions, and Technological Optimism: A Skeptic's View Wendy M. Grossman 11. Information Superhighways, Virtual Communities, and Digital Libraries: Information Society Metaphors as Political Rhetoric Peter Lyman 12. Rethinking the Cyberbody: Hackers, Viruses, and Cultural Anxiety Douglas Thomas 13. Peaceable Kingdoms and New Information Technologies: Prospects for the Nation-State Carolyn Marvin 14. Somewhere There's a Place for Us: Sexual Minorities and the Internet Larry Gross 15. Surfin' the Net: Children, Parental Obsolescence, and Citizenship Sarah Banet-Weiser 16. When the Virtual Isn't Enough Katie Hafner 17. Place Matters: Journeys through Global and Local Spaces Richard Chabr'an and Romelia Salinas 18. The Globalization of Everyday Life: Vision and Reality Jennifer Gibbs, Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Joo-Young Jung, Yong-Chan Kim, and Jack Linchaun Qiu About the Contributors Index
