Me++ : the cyborg self and the networked city / William J. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication--Popular works.

Telecommunication.

Computer networks--Popular works.

Computer networks.

Cyberspace--Popular works.

Cyberspace.

Information superhighway--Social aspects.

Information superhighway.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time."--Jacket.

Contents:

Contents; Prologue; 1 Boundaries / Networks; 2 Connecting Creatures; 3 Wireless Bipeds; 4 Dowsized Dry Goods; 5 Shedding Atoms; 6 Digital Doublin'; 7 Electronic Mnemotechnics; 8 Footloose Fabrication; 9 Post-Sedentary Space; 10 Against Program; 11 Cyborg Agonistes; 12 Logic Prisons; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-282-89915-5

9786612899157

0-262-28002-7

1-4175-7469-0

OCLC:

57560141