Cyburbia
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781408701140
Copyright date: 2009
Description: "In Cyburbia James Harkin describes how the architecture of our digital lives was built over seventy years. In a brilliant narrative that encompasses the work of crackpots, inventors and visionaries, it shows how a concept that began with the need to shoot down German bombers has evolved to govern almost everything - from our lives online to modern films like Memento and 21 Grams, from TV shows and plays to military strategy. Gripping, revelatory and fiercely intelligent, this extraordinary book will change forever the way you think about everything you do." -- Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: The Loop
pagenum: 15; label: 2
title: The Peer
pagenum: 32; label: 3
title: The Tie
pagenum: 49; label: 4
title: The Network Effect
pagenum: 72; label: 5
title: Peer Pressure
pagenum: 94; label: 6
title: Non-Linear
pagenum: 126; label: 7
title: Multiplicity
pagenum: 154; label: 8
title: Feedback
pagenum: 187; label: 9
title: Network Failure
pagenum: 209; title: Afterword
pagenum: 244; title: Select Sources
pagenum: 257; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 262; title: Index
pagenum: 264