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War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality
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War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality Paperback - 1996

by Mark Slouka

Part cultural critique, part call to the ramparts, this funny, eerily disturbing, humanist's look at the culture of cyberspace suggests that more is going on there than mere on-line communication. Offering a brave new vision of the digital avant-garde, Slouka takes a hard look at this revolution-in-the-making and some of the personalities behind it. Line drawings.


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Warning: A technological revolution is unfolding that promises, in the words of its creators, to redefine what it means to be human. Face-to-face communication ("F2F" to those in the know) is quickly becoming obsolete; already we turn to computers for information, entertainment, companionship--even love. Science fiction? Hardly. This is the brave new vision of the digital avant-garde, computer crusaders leading a high-tech assault on what was once known as reality. Sophisticated, well-funded, unabashedly messianic, they have the power, the technological know-how, and the marketplace savvy to make good on many of their wildest prophecies. With War of the Worlds, Mark Slouka gives us a funny, but eerily disturbing, humanist's look at the culture of cyberspace.

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I first stumbled upon (or into) the world of virtual systems while teaching undergraduate seminars on twentieth-century culture at a major California university.

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  • Title War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality
  • Author Mark Slouka
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 202
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-06-28
  • ISBN 9780465004874 / 0465004873
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.18 x 0.52 in (20.22 x 13.16 x 1.32 cm)
  • Reading level 1270
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95005966
  • Dewey Decimal Code 006

About the author

Mark Slouka is a lecturer in literature and culture at the University of California, San Diego. He's currently writing a book on the decline of the physical world in modern life, and his fiction has appeared in Harper's magazine.
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