商品簡介
By now, they said, we should all have flying cars and world peace, and we should be very busy replacing ourselves with machines. They also said the Internet would soon result in the end of both privacy and property. In all cases it is not entirely clear whether such changes are good or bad, or if they have or will come true. In this series of wide-ranging essays Anderson (communications, Elon U.) gives some perspective on why some dreams (or nightmares) about the technologies and societies of the future conflict with the reality, and why sociology, personalities and twists of fate are likely to keep flying cars and the destruction of the concept of property on their respective drawing boards for the time being. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Janna Quitney Anderson is the director of Internet projects and assistant professor of communications in the School of Communications at Elon University, North Carolina.
