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Internet Dreams - Archetypes, Myths, Metaphors
The MIT Press (Publisher)
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Book Description
The "information superhighway" is a metaphor oft used to describethe internet,
used so often that Stefik fears we're in danger ofsubjecting the evolution of
the net to the limiting implications of this metaphor. Stefik, along with a host
of prescient technothinkers and doers, examine four richer, more powerful
metaphorsand their Jungian archetypes that together should expand
anyone'sthinking about the cyber world... And those metaphors are:
digitallibrary (The Keeper of Knowledge), electronic mail (Communicator),
electronic marketplace (Trader), and digital world (Adventurer).The summoning of
the archetypes in service of Stefik's argument isless silicon psychobabble than
it is a compelling way to organizethis book around the very real ways in which
the
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780262692021
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher The MIT Press
Publishing Date 1997-07-29
Total Pages 440