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Internet Dreams

Mark Stefik

1996412 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1996
first published
  • 1996MIT Press · 412 pages · ENGISBN 9780262193733

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.

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