War of the World
Cyberspace and the High-tech Assault on Reality
Mark Slouka(Author)
Abacus (Publisher)
Published on 18. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-0-349-10785-1 (ISBN)
Description
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".
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 132 mm
Weight
192 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-349-10785-1 (9780349107851)
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Previous edition
Wilderness Man
the Strange Story of Grey Owl
Book
08/1995
Abacus
€31.13
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