Cyburbia

Description:

"In Cyburbia James Harkin describes how the architecture of our digital lives was built over seventy years. In a brilliant narrative that encompasses the work of crackpots, inventors and visionaries, it shows how a concept that began with the need to shoot down German bombers has evolved to govern almost everything - from our lives online to modern films like Memento and 21 Grams, from TV shows and plays to military strategy. Gripping, revelatory and fiercely intelligent, this extraordinary book will change forever the way you think about everything you do." -- Publisher description.

subjects: digital communications,  networks,  cybernetics,  Information technology,  Social aspects,  Computers and civilization,  Cyberspace,  Information society,  Social networks

People: Norbert Wiener,  Marshall McLuhan