Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway

Description

'[It] does a great service in making available a clear set of critiques of the headlong rush into a planned and administered future, while at the same time providing tools for analysis and policy which demonstrate the necessity, not to plan the future, but to take responsibility for the grounds upon which it can emerge' Futures
'An authoritative guide to thinking seriously about information technology, [It] helps to shift debate from its current journalistic level to a more considered overview of the phenomenon' Dr Jonathan Bigwell, University of Reading
Contents: Technological Whirlwind * Darker Side of West * Microcybernetic Revolution & Dialectics of Ignorance * Meta-Technology of Pure Control * Democratic Franchise & Electronic Frontier * Ecology & Cyberculture * Anthropology of Cyberculture * New Political Paradigm?