Title: Internet Dreams
First published: November 1996
Description: The author, computer scientist and director of the Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory at PARC, examines four key metaphors in use about the Internet: the digital library; electronic mail; electronic marketplac; and digital worlds. The book is a collection of excerpts from relevant documents, which the author introduces and then reflects upon afterward.
Subjects: digital library, internet, metaphor, Information superhighway, Information networks, Computer networks, Scientists, biography