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Free Download The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (Critical Cultural Communication) by Thomas Streeter
English | December 8, 2010 | ISBN: 0814741150, 0814741169 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 2.3 MB
This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990s, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia.