Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club
Subtitle: pulling the plug on the electronic revolution
By: edited by Bill Henderson.
Contributors: Henderson, Bill, 1941-
Edition: 1st Pushcart Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Pushcart Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Wainscott, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Computers and civilization; Information technology -- Social aspects; Information society
Notes: "Letters, essays, cartoons, and commentary on how and why to live contraption-free in a computer-crazed world."
Table of contents: title: The lead pencil club / [Bill Henderson]; title: Pencils / Gail Lawrence; title: I'll take the superhighway's sideroads : testimony / by Michele M. Cardella; title: The electronic hive : refuse it / Sven Birkerts; title: Adding memory / Andrei Codrescu; title: Powerless power : how barbarians defeated technology / Sanja Brizic Ilic; title: Why I am not going to buy a computer : testimony / by Wendell Berry; title: A little cyber grouch / Russell Baker; title: You can't live on the Internet / Clifford Stoll; title: Invalids in the garbage of memory / Peter Grenquist; title: My last class : the Hmong vs. high tech : testimony / by Leonora Holder; title: The media-free family : testimony / by Mary Ann Lieser; title: Letter perfect : testimony / by Ron Tanner; title: Abolishment of childhood? : testimony / by Mary Clagett Smith; title: Asia, Asia! / Eva Schawohl; title: Young cyber addicts : testimony / by Amy Wu; title: When executives should just say no : testimony / by Madeleine Begun Kane; title: The myth of computers in the classroom / David Gelernter; title: Booklove : testimony / by Jerome Stern; title: Why The Pocahontas Times does not have a fax : testimony / by Russell D. Jessee; title: User-friendliness : book vs. disk : testimony / by Stephen Manes; title: As it is / Dorianne Laux; title: Medical emergency : testimony / by Peter H. Gott; title: Scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Toad? / Lance Morrow; title: The compulsion to think : testimony / by Alan David Sophrin; title: My son saves nanoseconds : testimony / by Arthur Hoppe; title: A read-only man in an interactive age : testimony / by George Felton; title: The fetish of impermanence / D.T. Max; title: Don't fax me in / Carol Ann Messecar; title: Cui bono? / Eva T.H. Brann; title: Slower was faster : testimony / by Gerald Howard; title: Oh, for a yellow tablet : testimony / by Susan Hanson; title: From The dead man poems / Marvin Bell; title: Faust in the computer age : testimony / by Val Schaffner; title: Welcome to cyberbia : an economic primer / M. Kadi; title: The information superhighway : mega buys : testimony / by Franklin Saige; title: Cybersuicide : quitting the Net : testimony / by J.C. Herz; title: Virtual students, digital classroom / Neil Postman; title: Rapture and redemption in the virtual world / Mark Slouka; title: Afterword / Doris Grumbach.