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The internet edge : social, legal, and technological challenges for a networked world
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ISBN: 0262284251 0585124078 9780585124070 9780262284257 9780262194181 026219418X 026269249X 9780262692496 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press,

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This book is an eagle's eye view of the Internet edge. It is about the experiences of those who encountered similar issues as they built precursors to the Net such as videotext, teletext, and the Source.


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La démocratie et la société de l'information en Europe
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ISBN: 2843980593 9282878635 9782843980596 Year: 1999 Publisher: Rennes, : Apogée ; Genève : Office des Publications Officielles des Communautés Européennes,

How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics
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ISBN: 9780226321462 0226321452 0226321460 9780226321455 Year: 1999 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,

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In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman."

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