Format:
245 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
1568980485
Content:
Noted urban historian M. Christine Boyer turns to the new frontier - cybercities - in this important and compelling new book. Boyer argues that the computer is to contemporary society what the machine was to modernism, and that this new metaphor profoundly affects the way we think, imagine, and ultimately grasp reality. But there is, she believes, an inherent danger here: that as cyberspace pulls us into its electronic grasp, we withdraw from the world
Content:
Transferred, plugged in, and down-loaded, reality becomes increasingly immaterial. Frozen to one side of our terminal's screen, Boyer concludes, we risk becoming incapable of action in a real city plagued by crime, hatred, disease, unemployment, and under-education
Language:
English
Subjects:
Computer Science
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Sociology
Keywords:
Datenverarbeitung
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Sozialer Wandel
;
Telekommunikation
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Sozialer Wandel
;
Virtuelle Realität
;
Kunst
;
Datenverarbeitung
;
Stadtforschung
;
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
;
Stadt
;
Zivilisation
;
Cyberspace
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