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Internet dreams : archetypes, myths, and metophors / Mark Stefik.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 412 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585285616
  • 9780585285610
  • 0262284243
  • 9780262284240
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Internet dreams.DDC classification:
  • 025.04 20
LOC classification:
  • ZA3250.U6 I58 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Vinton C. Cerf -- Pt.1. The digital library metaphor : the I-Way as publishing and community memory. Excerpt from "As we may think" / Vannevar Bush -- Excerpt from Libraries of the Future / J. C. R. Licklider -- Excerpt from The digital library project, volume 1 : The world of knowbots / Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf -- Excerpt from "Communication as the root of scientific progress" / Joshua Lederberg -- Excerpt from "What is the role of libraries in the information economy?" / John Browning -- Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg myth / Scott D. N. Cook -- Excerpt from "Libraries are more than information : situational aspects of electronic libraries" / Vicky Reich and Mark Weiser -- Excerpt from "The electronic capture and dissemination of the cultural practice of Tibetan Thangka painting" / Ranjit Makkuni
(Cont.) Pt.2. The electronic mail metaphor : the I-Way as a communications medium. Some consequences of electronic groups / Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj -- Netiquette 101 / Jay Machado -- Excerpt from "The MPC adventures : experiences with the generation of VLSI design and implementation methodologies" / Lynn Conway -- Excerpt from "Digital communications and the conduct of science : the new literacy" / Joshua Lederberg -- Pt.3. The Electronic Marketplace metaphor : selling goods and services on the I-Way. Excerpt from "Electronic commerce on the Internet" / from the CommerceNet Home Page -- Excerpt from "Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies" / Thomas W. Malone, Joanne Yates, and Robert I. Benjamin
(Cont.) Slaves of a new machine : exploring the for-free/for-pay conundrum / Laura Fillmore -- Letting loose the light : igniting commerce in electronic publication / Mark Stefik -- Pt.4. The digital worlds metaphor : the I-Way as a gateway to experience. Excerpt from "Mudding : social phenomena in text-based virtual realities" / Pavel Curtis -- A rape in cyberspace : how an evil clown, a Haitian trikster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society / Julian Dibbell -- Interaction without society? : what avatars can't do / Harry M. Collins -- Excerpt from "Toward portable ideas" / Mark Stefik and John Seely Brown -- The national collaboratory -- a white paper / William A. Wulf -- Internet dreams : first encouters of an on-line dream group / Barbara Viglizzo -- Epilogue : choices and dreams.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-402) and index.

Print version record.

Foreword / Vinton C. Cerf -- Pt.1. The digital library metaphor : the I-Way as publishing and community memory. Excerpt from "As we may think" / Vannevar Bush -- Excerpt from Libraries of the Future / J. C. R. Licklider -- Excerpt from The digital library project, volume 1 : The world of knowbots / Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf -- Excerpt from "Communication as the root of scientific progress" / Joshua Lederberg -- Excerpt from "What is the role of libraries in the information economy?" / John Browning -- Technological revolutions and the Gutenberg myth / Scott D. N. Cook -- Excerpt from "Libraries are more than information : situational aspects of electronic libraries" / Vicky Reich and Mark Weiser -- Excerpt from "The electronic capture and dissemination of the cultural practice of Tibetan Thangka painting" / Ranjit Makkuni

(Cont.) Pt.2. The electronic mail metaphor : the I-Way as a communications medium. Some consequences of electronic groups / Lee Sproull and Samer Faraj -- Netiquette 101 / Jay Machado -- Excerpt from "The MPC adventures : experiences with the generation of VLSI design and implementation methodologies" / Lynn Conway -- Excerpt from "Digital communications and the conduct of science : the new literacy" / Joshua Lederberg -- Pt.3. The Electronic Marketplace metaphor : selling goods and services on the I-Way. Excerpt from "Electronic commerce on the Internet" / from the CommerceNet Home Page -- Excerpt from "Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies" / Thomas W. Malone, Joanne Yates, and Robert I. Benjamin

(Cont.) Slaves of a new machine : exploring the for-free/for-pay conundrum / Laura Fillmore -- Letting loose the light : igniting commerce in electronic publication / Mark Stefik -- Pt.4. The digital worlds metaphor : the I-Way as a gateway to experience. Excerpt from "Mudding : social phenomena in text-based virtual realities" / Pavel Curtis -- A rape in cyberspace : how an evil clown, a Haitian trikster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society / Julian Dibbell -- Interaction without society? : what avatars can't do / Harry M. Collins -- Excerpt from "Toward portable ideas" / Mark Stefik and John Seely Brown -- The national collaboratory -- a white paper / William A. Wulf -- Internet dreams : first encouters of an on-line dream group / Barbara Viglizzo -- Epilogue : choices and dreams.

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