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May 30, Nathan added it. Over Given the rapid technological progress that had occurred since the publication of the book, reading the author’s descriptions of now ordinary processes like emailing, teleconferencing, or online sspace is rather boring.
This book is in my “books-to-read” wishlist. Interesting, plaxe, yet also appropriately skeptical. Might be a bit dated these days. The consequences of this are brutally obvious.
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn
Feel optimistic about the future? Visionary in scope this book opened my eyes to the potential for social space on the internet. Lists with This Book. Dec 04, Yuri Artibise intobahn it liked it Shelves: The bandwidth-disadvantaged are the new have-nots.
Thanks for telling us about the problem.
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City of Bits: Space, Place And The Infobahn
Here the site falters somewhat. It was required reading for a grad school seminar that became recreational at the same time Here Mitchell is more realistic: Want to gain a fresh perspective? Minah rated it really liked it Aug 01, Mitchell’s concerns over social equity and access to cyberspace are still relevant challenges to this day despite the updates in technologies.
Some interesting concepts, but quite dated now. Open Preview See a Problem? Want to Read saving…. Dec 17, Sourabh Rohilla rated it it was amazing.
That said, I do love the extended architectural metaphor. Cali rated it really liked it Jun 17, Jeff Alexander rated it liked it Aug 07, Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction plade a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway.
This guy is an architect first and an info architect second. Mitchell even provides the URLs to hundreds of ‘surf sites’ that cover subjects from advertising to the World Wide Web.