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020			_a978-0-691-21232-6 _q(hardcover)
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050	0	0	_aTK 5105.875 S48 2022
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100	1		_aSmith, Justin E. H., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Internet is not what you think it is : _ba history, a philosophy, a warning / _cJustin E.H. Smith.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2022
300			_ax, 194 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index.
505			_aIntroduction "Let us calculate!" -- 1. A sudden acceleration -- 2. The ecology of the internet -- 3. The Reckoning engine and the thinking machine -- 4. "How closely woven the web" : the internet as a loom -- 5. A window on the world
520			_aA history of the Internet, uncovering its origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of improving the quality of human life by creating thinking machines and allowing for communication across vast distances. Looks at what the Internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us.
520			_a"An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it--and explains why they have died today. Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern world--uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet's continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology. Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the "internet" has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet's organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature. Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aINTERNET _xHISTORY.
650		0	_aARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE _xHISTORY.
650		0	_aTECHNOLOGY _xSOCIAL ASPECTS.
650		0	_aTECHNOLOGY AND CIVILIZATION.
650		6	_aINTERNET _xHISTOIRE.
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		7	_aInformational works. _2lcgft
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