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Shaping Things
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A guide to the next great wave of technology—an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.
"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."
Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of...