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Me++ : the cyborg self and the networked city

Author: William J Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage, global  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Popular works
Ouvrages de vulgarisation
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William J Mitchell
ISBN: 0262134349 9780262134347
OCLC Number: 52341499
Description: 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Boundaries/Networks --
Connecting Creatures --
Wireless Bipeds --
Downsized Dry Goods --
Shedding Atoms --
Digital Doublin' --
Electronic Mnemotechnics --
Footloose Fabrication --
Post-Sedentary Space --
Against Program --
Cyborg Agonistes --
Logic Prisons.
Responsibility: William J. Mitchell.
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How the transformation of wireless technology and the creation of an interconnected world are changing our environment and our lives.  Read more...

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"...Mitchell floats clearly conveyed assertions on a stream of technological and historical detail." Andrea Oppenheimer Dean Architectural Record "Mitchell's book, Me++ is an attempt to fill in the Read more...

 
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