Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes

by Howard Rheingold, David Kudler (Editor)

Overview

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Renowned for exploring the social implications of modern technology, Howard Rheingold has been called by MIT "the first citizen of the Internet."

In these funny, prescient, thought-provoking essays, originally published during the 1970s and 1980s, he casts a glimpse into the changes wrought during that explosive period. From the effects of the graphic user interface (GUI) not only on how we work but how we think, to "tecnharchist" movements that presaged both the hacker mentality and the anarchist idealism of Burning Man of today, to a ground-floor view of the very earliest of what Rheingold was the first to dub virtual communities, his Excursions run the gamut from the silly to the profound.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014992237
Publisher:	Stillpoint Digital Press
Publication date:	07/25/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Howard Rheingold is a critic, writer, and teacher whom MIT called "the first citizen of the Internet."

He is renowned for writing and speaking on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing).

Among the books he has written are Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society, Virtual Communities: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontiers, ools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology and Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes, available from Stillpoint Digital Press.

He is a visiting lecturer, teaching classes in virtual communities and social media at Stanford University and at the University of California, Berkeley.