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Tools for Thought

"Where will our new machines take us? Back in 1985, forward-thinking Howard Rheingold asked research pioneers to describe the nascent personal-computer revolution and its trajectory. The book is an excellent slice of "retrospective futurism" -- showing how we got to our largely wired world and where we might find ourselves in the future, as well as exploring some might-have-been scenarios that still seemed likely in the '80s."...

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: June 29, 2011
Date Modified in MERLOT:: June 22, 2016
Author:: Howard Rheingold, The MIT Press
Submitter:: Cathy Swift

Primary Audience:: College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Professional
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Language:: English
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