Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite

By John Brockman

The highly celebrated visionaries of the Digital Revolution offer their unique and influential point of view on the historic, social, cultural, psychological, political and economic changes we have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888869046
• ISBN13: 9781888869040
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hardwired
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Just a great new word

Yes, I just like the book title and the new word "digerati".

Disappointing and short-sighted

~I was truely hoping this book was going to give some compliments most of the book goes on about how revolutionary things should be while almost all (bar one or two) seem to think the whole world and Internet consists of purely American citizens and that American rights should be used on the Internet and therefore applied to the rest of the world, followed by dribbling on about context and content in such boring terms it was difficult to stay awake.The book also consists of more than a few journalists and analysts whom, after all, had~ such great ideas and visions would be sitting at the top of a large company and not speculating about whats going on. If this is the best ideas and visions the

One of the Best Book of Cyber Elite Ever!

Before you read this book, you have to understand a Wired style of presenting article. With its smartly-ironic thinking in composing futuristic English sentence, another book by Hardwired simply touch the heart of Cyber Mania. Digerati, which in this case means, literari for the digital age, presented in such a way, that make us feel like reading in the internet medium. The interview was written and matrixed with other opinions from the Cyber Elite. Just read the chapter about the sceptic Cliff Stoll and the pro and contra of other geeks like Bill Gates, Steve Case and others regarding Stollinian theory. Then you might want to buy this book. It is simply the best book on Cyber Culture.

Comments on the latest epochal revolution

At a time when when an adherance to ideological dogma seems to be giving way to the "real politic" of a maturing marketplace, John Brockman's latest book offers insights into the philosophies and Zeigeist of these changes which are above all cultural events. Digerati offers an intellectual context of the changes that are affecting us today, and will increasing affect us as technologies move from the rarefied domains of the digital magi to those of the soccer mom. It is from the people of accomplishment that we profit and learn, and Brockman offers us here such an array, digital litterati singing themes at times discordant, but always fascinating and compelling