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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The effects of this transition will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. The Big Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the "World Wide Computer." --from publisher description
Author
Publisher
mineditionUS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bix lives with her family in a city where people rarely talk or play together, and no longer read books. Instead, they stare at small portable screens, monitored by giant eyeballs. The Eyes are here to help! With everything. But Bix would like to do things for herself. Running from an Eye, she discovers another world: the City Under the City. There, she befriends a rat who leads her to a library and its treasure trove of books and knowledge. As she...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
This is a book of the influence of current network and digital technology as an agent for redefining, transforming, and reassessing, the concept of "home". The premise of this study is that the evolving use of Internet as a virtual transportation medium may result in the change of comfort and distance within spatial environments forcing one's living space of working, learning, and playing to extend over an ubiquitous locale. This extension would in...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A decade has passed since John Connor helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives 'off the grid' with no home, credit cards, cell phones or a job. No record of his existence. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X, Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet....
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