Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Spammed! -- The black shakes -- Skeptical in Seattle -- "A new generation of geniuses" -- The thunderbird problem -- Paralysis by analysis -- Stat wars -- The two-by-four effect -- Village of Babel -- A nation of lonely molecules -- Superdemocracy -- Creatures from the Info Lagoon -- Dataveillance -- Anecdotage -- The end of journalism? -- Cyber-libertarians vs. technorealists -- What then must be done? -- Be your own filter -- Be your own editor -- Simplify -- De-nichify -- Don't forsake government : help improve it.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Explores the myths of the information age and offers a balanced perspective on technology's ever-changing face and its sometimes invisible effects on culture as a whole.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Information society-- United States.
Information society.
Information technology-- Social aspects-- United States.