Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives

By Janna Quitney Anderson

In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of "property," a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions-and how they turned out. It gives the history of communications in a nutshell, illustrating the serious impact of pervasive networks and how they will change our lives over the next century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742539369
• ISBN13: 9780742539365
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"