November 1995
Beginner
502 pages
11h 11m
English
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Can Human Ideals Survive the Internet?
The Internet has become the most highly perfected means yet for the scattering of the self beyond recall. Unless we can recollect ourselves in the presence of our intelligent artifacts, we have no future.
PART 1. MAN, COMPUTERS, AND COMMUNITY
Chapter 2. The Machine in the Ghost
The one sure thing about the computer's future is that we will behold our own reflection in it. What I really fear is the hidden and increasingly powerful machine within *us*, of which the machines we create are an outward expression. Machines become a threat when they embody our limitations without our being fully aware of those limitations.
Chapter 3. The Future Does Not Compute
Computers will do us no good if they shape our thinking so thoroughly to the past that our courage fails us when it comes time to break the machine and declare for the unjustifiable.
Chapter 4. Settlers in Cyberspace
The lone Chinese standing in front of a tank on Tienanmen Square symbolized the fact that something in the human being -- some remaining spark of innocence and hope and bravery -- held more promise for the future of society than all the mechanisms of raw, earthly power.
Chapter 5. On Being Responsible for Earth
If we trash the current technology without changing our habits of mind, we will simply invent a new prison for ourselves using whatever materials are at hand. But if we *can* change ourselves, then Jerry Mander's argument ...
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